Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012
363days and still waiting!
student365, 09:39h
363 days!!!
I submitted my PhD thesis on 6th January 2011 and still haven’t received any results. My thesis examination process is still ongoing – for 363 days!
I asked for help:
Vice Chancellors – no support
Graduate Centre – no support
Dean of Graduate Studies – no support
Dean of School – no support
Director International Student Liaison and Recruitment – no support
Former supervisors – no support
I started my studies in 2007 and I have had a hard time at Murdoch University since 2008, as I refused to give up part of my methods. Some supervisors don’t like it, when a student has her own opinion. My supervisor resigned one week before my deadline approached. It took one year to find a supervisor willing to read my thesis and now the thesis examination process has almost taken one year. Murdoch has a special policy for a case like mine (http://www.research.murdoch.edu.au/gradcentre/supervision.html):
“Murdoch has a responsibility to ensure that students receive high quality supervision. This involves ensuring that students have adequate access to supervisors and that students are protected from adverse impacts when a supervisor has extended leave or resigns”.
However, I have learned that Murdoch policies do not mean anything and no one cares about them. I did not get any help with my thesis, my scientific publications or support for job applications from anyone at this university. Now, the university is letting me down completely by letting me wait for 363 days for the outcome of my thesis examination process.
Do you want to go through all this trouble? Do you think this might be my fault and it will never happen to you? – Make up your mind – soon to come: names and emails.
I submitted my PhD thesis on 6th January 2011 and still haven’t received any results. My thesis examination process is still ongoing – for 363 days!
I asked for help:
Vice Chancellors – no support
Graduate Centre – no support
Dean of Graduate Studies – no support
Dean of School – no support
Director International Student Liaison and Recruitment – no support
Former supervisors – no support
I started my studies in 2007 and I have had a hard time at Murdoch University since 2008, as I refused to give up part of my methods. Some supervisors don’t like it, when a student has her own opinion. My supervisor resigned one week before my deadline approached. It took one year to find a supervisor willing to read my thesis and now the thesis examination process has almost taken one year. Murdoch has a special policy for a case like mine (http://www.research.murdoch.edu.au/gradcentre/supervision.html):
“Murdoch has a responsibility to ensure that students receive high quality supervision. This involves ensuring that students have adequate access to supervisors and that students are protected from adverse impacts when a supervisor has extended leave or resigns”.
However, I have learned that Murdoch policies do not mean anything and no one cares about them. I did not get any help with my thesis, my scientific publications or support for job applications from anyone at this university. Now, the university is letting me down completely by letting me wait for 363 days for the outcome of my thesis examination process.
Do you want to go through all this trouble? Do you think this might be my fault and it will never happen to you? – Make up your mind – soon to come: names and emails.
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