Dear John
Most of the people in Australia are not there, most of the time so it wouldn't matter if an external examiner also wasn't there either (this is a joke - for those without English slang, to "not be there" is a contraction of to "not be all there" which means to be "out of your tree", "away with the birds", or not sound of mind).
I don't see any problem - it really is a question of how much access the examiner has to those things which are presumed to be under examination. It might be difficult to assess visual works that have spatial qualities at the heart of their product. One could do OK with a verbal presentation (audio) of a text-based work.
cheers from one who is sometimes mostly all there
keith
>>> John Angrish <[log in to unmask]> 04/03/11 9:58 PM >>>
In a message dated 4/3/11 00:06:49, [log in to unmask] writes:
> In order to inform a university policy on this matter, I was wondering if
> anybody here has experience of remote vivas, and can offer advice or point
> to university policy that is well established.
>
>
I have been external examner for PhD in Australia without going there. So
maybe our Australian friends could say what their regs say about an external
who is not there.
John Z L
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