It is the responsibility of the student's School of Study to ensure that
there are adequate supervisory arrangements, including substitutions,
where necessary, if the original supervisor has left or is on study leave.
The advent of faxes and email has, however, made it easier for students and
supervisors to stay in touch, if the supervisor is, for example, overseas.
(Or if the student is overseas; we have provision for students in some
circumstances to conduct part of their research overseas.)
The Continuation Fees are partly to encourage students to complete and
partly to reflect the residual costs of keeping them on the books and
continuing to supervise them.
Eleanor Martin
At 10:00 02/11/98 -0000, you wrote:
>Can one assume that where institutions charge significant 'continuation'
>fees
>to research students that they also contract to ensure some level of
>academic
>support, that if supervisors take year-long sabbaticals in (say) Siberia
>or
>Taiwan they ensure suitable replacement arrangements etc? Or are these
>fees
>just a penalty for messing up completion rates? Do any members have
>knowledge
>of (un)successful legal action taken by students in situations where
>such
>arrangements have not been made, and is the size of any fee likely to
>have a
>bearing on the possible success of applications for judicial review of
>relevant institutional decisions?
>
>Paul Hubert
>
>
>
>
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Eleanor Martin, Assistant Registrar, Academic Division,
UEA.
Tel. 01603 592205
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