Varsity to ensure completion of Ph.D. theses on time
University of Madras move to speed up progress of students
In a move to speed up the progress of students who spend more than the minimum period of three years in Ph.D programmes, the University of Madras has decided to bring in procedures to monitor the progress of their work.
“We will bring out criteria to be satisfied by the scholar for extending the registration beyond the period of three years. The Dean (Research) for university departments and the principal or the director of the institution will be a part of doctoral committee meetings that will decide on a recommendation for the extension of registration,” said Vice-Chancellor P. Duraisamy, speaking at the academic council meeting on Saturday.
This move is to ensure that the students complete their theses on time and to speed up their progress. The university has also already introduced an online monitoring system for Ph.D scholars, through which supervisors and scholars can check status from admission to the award of the degree.
Online repository
As a part of the university’s initiatives in research, Ph.D theses are being uploaded online in an electronic repository, Shodhganga @INFLIBNET. Stating that the university had initially begun to upload old theses online, they have now decided to start uploading doctoral research theses from the last couple of years on the repository and work backwards.
“Over the last few years, we have been receiving the theses on a CD and this makes for easy uploading on the repository. For theses from many years back that we were uploading, it was taking a lot more time since all the pages had to be scanned individually,” Mr. Duraisamy said, speaking on the sidelines of the meeting. The online repository, which is an initiative of the University Grants Commission (UGC), aims to create a repository of theses from across the country.
While over 180 theses that had been submitted over the last three months have gone through the anti-plagiarism software in place at the university, concerns were raised at the meeting about the software detecting standard definitions and scientific names which were commonly used, which could result in the theses being disqualified.
However, the Vice-Chancellor said that the theses, once submitted, would be run through the software and if there were high levels of plagiarism detected, the student and the guide would be notified.
We will bring out criteria for extending courses beyond three years
P. Duraisamy
V-C, University of Madras
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