1997 QUT Handbook

Advisory Committee will review the candidate’s progress and course of study in the form of a formal
seminar presentation, before candidature in the Doctor of Education program can be confirmed.
Examination of the Thesis
Submission of Thesis
(i) After making revisions suggested in the oral presentation, candidates will submit to the Student Affairs
Officer four copies of the thesis, bound in a temporary form as approved by Research Management
Committee.
(ii) The thesis should be accompanied by a signed declaration which states that:
(a) the candidate has complied with the ethics of experimentation as set out in the publication
Guide to Thesis Presentation
(b) the thesis is the candidate’s own work and that all other sources are correctly acknowledged
(c) the thesis has not been submitted to another institution.
(iii) The thesis must contain a joint declaration signed by both the student and their supervisor stating that
the thesis is ready for examination.
Thesis Presentation and Examination
This has two components, an oral and a written presentation to a Faculty of Education Panel designed to
assist the candidate in a final revision of the thesis and to allow the panel to recommend if the thesis is
ready for examination, and the formal examination by a University Examination Committee.
Oral Presentation
(i) An oral presentation of the thesis shall be made to a Faculty of Education Panel which consists of the
Principal Supervisor (Chair), Course Coordinator, Director of the relevant Centre or Research
Concentration (quorum 2).
(ii) The candidate’s principal supervisor, through the Centre of Research ‘Concentration Director, shall
notify the Faculty Office on the relevant proforma at least four weeks in advance of the presentation.
Faculty panel members must each receive a copy of the thesis in temporary binding four weeks in
advance of the date set for the oral presentation. A copy of the thesis, bound in temporary cover, must
also be provided to each attending member of the University Examination Committee.
(iii) Where the Higher Degrees Advisory Committee is satisfied that a candidate would be seriously
disadvantaged if required to undergo an oral presentation, an alternate form of presentation may be
approved.
(iv) The panel may suggest changes to the thesis or further work to be done and can recommend the thesis
as being ready for examination.
Formal Examination
(i) Examiners are expected to return their assessment within 8 weeks to the Research Students Office.
Candidates may be required to participate in an oral defence of their thesis but only at the request of
the examiners.
(ii) Examiners should make one of the following recommendations:
(a) Pass - implying that the thesis will be fully satisfactory except possibly for editorial changes
(b) Resubmit - implying that the thesis will be fully acceptable when certain necessary corrections
or modifications are made by the candidate and resubmitted to the examiners.
(c) Fail - implying that the thesis is not of an acceptable standard.
(iii) In all cases the examiner should provide along with the official assessment form, a separate document
indicating where corrections or modifications are required and as appropriate, provide any constructive
criticism and comment helpful to the candidate.
(iv) If a recommendation to type (a) is accepted, the Faculty Academic Board will ask the Course Coordinator
to make the examiners requirements available to the candidate while maintaining the anonymity of the
examiners. The Faculty Academic Board will sign an official record indicating satisfaction of all
thesis requirements when advised by the Course Coordinator that all required changes have been
completed satisfactorily.
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