S.L. 327.669 Art. 64

(1) Bye-Laws shall establish methods and stipulate procedures for the effective monitoring of students’ progress throughout their studies. These shall include measures to ensure that written progress reports are submitted regularly by Principal supervisors to an appropriate faculty/departmental committee or panels of supervision for individual students or groups of students. Such reports may include a recommendation to either (i) grant an extension of the study period in order to enable the students to complete the Dissertation; or (ii) to terminate the studies prematurely if the relevant faculty/departmental committee deems this to be proper in the circumstances; provided that for (i), the period of extension of studies shall be according to regulation 19; and for (ii), the student may appeal his case before Senate within 15 days from the notice of termination;

(2) Boards shall ensure that:

(a) substantial modification of title or content of the Dissertation, and/or requests for extension of studies or suspension of studies are considered and decided upon expeditiously;

(b) students’ research is not hindered in unforeseeable circumstances, such as when a supervisor is absent for a long period; and

(c) requests by students about matters relating to their studies (including a request to change their Principal supervisor if there are serious reasons) are adequately considered.