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§2. Admission of Candidates as Probationer Research Students

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  1. [1] 1. The board to which a prospective student's branch of study belongs may admit any person as a Probationer Research Student provided that the board is satisfied:
    1. [2] (1) that the candidate is well-fitted and well-qualified to conduct work for a research degree,
    2. [3] (2) that the branch of study proposed by the candidate is one which may profitably be pursued under the superintendence of the board,
    3. [4] (3) that supervision will be available, and
    4. [5] (4) that the faculty board or department under whose aegis the research is to be conducted has adequate facilities to enable the research to be undertaken.
  2. [6] 2. Applications for admission shall be forwarded to the Registrar, according to such timetables as the Education Committee shall determine. The Registrar shall be responsible for transmitting the candidate's application to the faculty board or department concerned, together with a statement of the branch of study which the candidate intends to pursue, and such evidence of his or her fitness to undertake the proposed study as may be required by the board or department.
  3. [7] 3. No person shall be admitted as a Probationer Research Student unless he or she is also a member of a college, and unless the application for admission as a Probationer Research Student has the approval of his or her college. The Registrar shall forward the application to the candidate's college or to the college to which the candidate wishes to apply for membership, as appropriate; and admission by the board shall be conditional upon admission by an approved society.
  4. [8] 4. A student already on the register of graduate students and holding the status of student for another degree, and who wishes to read for the M.Sc. by Research, M.Litt., or D.Phil. may apply for transfer to the status of Probationer Research Student, provided that before admitting the student to that status the board concerned shall be satisfied that he or she fulfils the conditions set out in clause 1 above. Students who transfer in this way shall be reckoned as having been admitted as Probationer Research Students from the time they were admitted to their previous status.
  5. [9] 5. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to notify candidates of the decision of the board as soon as may be and to inform a candidate whose application has been approved by the board of the term from which his or her admission as a Probationer Research Student is to be reckoned.
  6. [10] 6. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to keep a Register of those admitted to the status of Probationer Research Student.
  7. [11] 7. A board may grant a student suspension from the Register or deprive a student of his or her status; and in such cases it shall at all times follow procedures determined by the Education Committee by regulation. A board may also reinstate a student to the Register, provided that the total number of terms a student has spent as a Probationer Research Student has not exceeded five terms in the case of a full-time student, or ten terms in the case of a part-time student.