General University Postgraduate Awards (Amendment) Regulations, 2010

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L.N. 398 of 2010

EDUCATION ACT

(CAP. 327)

General University Postgraduate Awards (Amendment) Regulations, 2010

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred upon him by articles 74 (5)

and 75 (6) of the Education Act (Cap. 327), the Chancellor of the University

of Malta has promulgated the following regulations made by the Senate of the

University of Malta by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by articles 75

and 79 of the said Act

Citation

These regulations may be cited as the General University Postgraduate

Awards (Amendment) Regulations, 2010 and shall be read and construed as one with

the General Regulations for University Postgraduate Awards, 2008, published as Legal

Notice 120 of 2008, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Applicability

These regulations shall be applicable from August 2010 onwards.

Amendment to Regulation 19 of the principal Regulations

The following sub-title for regulation 19 of the principal regulations shall be

deleted

“Preparatory Programmes”

Amendment to Regulation 27 of the principal regulations

For paragraph (2) of regulation 27 of the principal regulations there shall be

substituted the following

“(2) However, following approval by Senate, a Board may allow particular

students to write their dissertation in any other language, provided that the Board has

ascertained, to the satisfaction of Senate, that the University has the necessary expertise

to supervise and examine the work. In such cases, students shall be required to include a

translation of the Abstract in English.”

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Amendment to Regulation 52 of the principal regulations

For paragraph (a) of regulation 52 of the principal regulations there shall be

substituted the following

“(a) written progress reports are submitted regularly by Principal Supervisors to

an appropriate faculty/departmental committee or panels of supervision for individual

students or groups of students; such reports may include a recommendation either to (a)

grant an extension of the study period in order to enable the students to complete the

dissertation; or (b) to terminate the studies prematurely if the relevant

faculty/departmental committee deems this to be proper in the circumstances; provided

that for (a), the period of extension of studies shall be according to regulation 21(1); and

for (b), the student may appeal his case before Senate within 15 days from the notice of

termination;”.

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