PROPOSAL/THESIS PROCESSING

Prepare and schedule for board meetings for (PhD proposals)

  1. Ensuring the PhD students get PhD proposals approval timely.
  2. Updating and maintaining students’ supervisor’s records.
  3. Process the students’ research proposals and thesis/projects on timely basis.
  4. Corresponding with supervisors and examiners and sending them students thesis and appointment letters.
  5. Register and compute Postgraduate Examinations.
  6. Facilitate oral thesis examinations for postgraduate students by emailing documents to examiners and students.
  7. Prompt Retrieval of examination reports for circulation.
  8. Communicate with examiners for prompt and timely submission of Examination reports.
  9. Attend to daily inquiries from students and examiners/ supervisors pertaining to the progress of proposals, thesis and projects.
  10. Recording the Directorates minutes and the proceedings of PhD Oral Examinations and minutes processing.
  11. Maintaining and managing the Directorates petty cash for paying External examiners, accommodation, per diem and travel expenses as per University rules and regulations.
  12. Liaise with Deans of Faculties to diarize and schedule oral examination defense dates on behave of the Directorate.
  13. Checking of plagiarism of the final project/thesis.
  14. Verification of certificate of thesis correction form, publication papers, and hardbound copies of thesis and signing of clearance forms.
  15. Preparing graduation lists and writing completion letters for all students who are due for graduation.