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| Monday, April 14, 2008
Admissions begin for doctoral programme
Professionals can apply for Ph.D. on part-time basis
COIMBATORE: Candidates who applied for doing part-time doctoral
programme of Bharathiar University and had emerged successful
after the counselling were given registration letters here recently.
They were professionals from various fields, including defence-related
organisations, Information Technology and lecturers.
The first two candidates S.V. Sudharani and P. Venkata Sarla,
both from the Defence Research Development Organisation, were
handed over registration letters by the Vice-Chancellor, G.
Thiruvasagam.
The candidates were admitted under the programme announced by
the university in January, by which post-graduates, mainly professionals,
with or without experience from any part of the country or abroad
could apply for Ph.D. on a part-time basis.
Guides
This was applicable to those belonging to arts, science, humanities,
commerce and management streams. They were permitted to choose
their respective guides from any part of the country.
The university had planned to develop a guide bank wherein qualified
guides in various subjects would be registered.
The list would be posted on the website of the university. Candidates
were free to choose their guides depending on convenience and
proximity.
Accordingly 100 applications were received from candidates from
various parts of the country. Each one of them had come personally
to the university for counselling and registration.
The candidates were interviewed by a panel consisting of the
Head of Department concerned, a subject expert and Director
of the Research and Development Department of the university,
according to the Vice-Chancellor.
Review committee
The candidates would have to appear once a year before a review
committee that would assess his or her progress. Those with
M.Phil. degree would be given three years to complete their
thesis. Others would get four years.
“The scheme is aimed at providing an opportunity for professionals
who like to earn their Ph.Ds, but were not able to do so on
a regular basis for some constraint or the other,” said
the Vice-Chancellor.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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