MPhil Handbook
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Admission
- Minimum standards for entry to the MPhil
- Criteria for assessing applicants eligibility for MPhil candidature
- General requirements
- Applicants based at approved outside institutions
- Part-time candidature
- Employment restrictions on full-time candidates
- Research assistants
- MPhil candidates freed by employers for full-time research
- Application procedures
- MPhil Submission of collection of papers
- Candidature
- Variations to Candidature
- Leave of absence
- Study away from the University
- Change in enrolment status between full-time and part-time
- Change of project
- Change of supervisor/department
- Early submission of thesis
- Extension of period of candidature
- Lapsed candidature in good standing
- Reinstatement of candidature
- Withdrawal from the degree
- Departure from conditions of candidature
- Unsatisfactory progress
- Advice to candidates about problems during candidature
- Student grievances
- Supervision
- Supervisor training
- Advisory Committee
- Definitions
- Research Guidelines
- MPhil Thesis
- Preparation of the thesis
- Expected requirements
- Standard of examination of creative work
- Completion seminar
- Writing a thesis in a language other than English
- Editing of theses
- Word limit
- Published material
- Format of the thesis
- Order of contents
- Thesis preparation and binding
- Notice of intention to submit thesis (80-word summary)
- Thesis submission
- Final form of the thesis
- Making your thesis available on the University of Melbourne ePrints Repository (UMER)
- Manuals on the presentation of theses
- Examination
- Nomination of examiners
- Duration of examination
- Examiner's report
- Assignment of a mark for an MPhil
- Marking requirements for examiners
- Grade requirement
- Amendment to thesis
- Minor amendments
- Revisions
- Disagreement between examiners
- Resubmission
- Notification of pass result
- Confidentiality of names of examiners
- Library Release Authorisation and copyright of thesis
- Restricted access to thesis
- Appendix
Guidelines on Research Higher Degree candidature for departments, supervisors and candidates