By TCN News,
Aligarh: As a major push to strengthen and upgrade the quality of research in the Aligarh Muslim University, the Academic Council today adopted a new set of academic ordinances incorporating University Grants Commission’s regulations 2009 regarding minimum standard for the award of M. Phil and PhD. degrees.
A special meeting of the Academic Council today adopted new academic ordinances relating to M.Phil/PhD. programmes. These new regulations came into force immediately and the notification for new admission will be issued within three weeks.
According to the new academic ordinances, M.Phil/PhD students will be admitted through an entrance test followed by an interview. The admission test will be a common one based on the rank candidates will be admitted in these programmes.
Both M. Phil/PhD students would be required to undertake a course work for minimum one semester. Prior to submission of the thesis, students are required to make a representation six months before the submission of the thesis.
PhD students will be required to publish one research paper in a referral journal before submitting the thesis. Students would be required to submit a soft copy of the thesis along with the hard copies.
The meeting was presided over by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis.