AGC News 8 December - 21 December 2008
Table of Contents
- Re-Enrolment
- Higher Degree by Research Scholarships update
- Which Academic Program Rules Apply to me at the Time of Thesis Submission?
- Thesis Submission
- Emergency contacts
- Discipline/School/Centre Contacts for 2009
- 16th International Student Congress of Medical Sciences
- Closing for Christmas
Re-Enrolments
All students who have returned and successfully completed an Annual Review are being automatically re-enrolled for 2009, providing that they have no outstanding financial obligation to the University. Please check your re- enrolment on Access Adelaide and if you have not been re-enrolled when you think that you should have been, contact the Graduate Centre on 8303 5882 or by email to Kim Crawford.
Information on how and where to renew your Student Identity Card for 2009 through Card Services will be available from the 15th December 2008 on the Card Services web site.
Higher Degree by Research Scholarships update
Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) rates have now been published. The stipend
rate for an APA in 2009 is $20,427 per annum (tax free).
Australian Postgraduate Awards - Industry are offered under ARC Linkage Grants.
The stipend rate for an APA(I) under a 2009 Linkage Grant is $26,669 per annum
(tax free).
The Adelaide Graduate Centre has a new scholarships website. Please see the following web pages for information regarding currently available HDR scholarship opportunities and all relevant forms: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/scholarships/postgrad/
Which Academic Program Rules Apply to me at the Time of Thesis Submission?
Students can choose whether they wish their thesis to be examined under the academic program rules in place during the year of enrolment, or the rules in place at the time of submission. This selection is made at the time of notifying the Graduate Centre of your Intention to Submit your thesis for examination.
Where possible*, it is recommended that students elect to submit under the current rules and specifications for thesis for the following reasons:
- To ensure that the thesis delivered to examiners is consistent with current national and international expectations of a Doctoral or Master by Research thesis;
- that the University has, in general, moved to permit greater flexibility in the format of research theses e.g. PhDs may now be submitted in publication format (containing a mixture of published, submitted and unpublished papers), by creative work and exegesis or in the traditional narrative form; and
- the yearly revisions to the program rules and specifications for thesis document have resulted in greater clarity of doctoral and Master requirements to students, staff and examiners.
To view current and historical Academic Program rules and Specifications for your Faculty, click on the relevant link on the new Research Academic Program Rules website
Thesis Submission
If you are planning to submit your thesis for examination before Christmas, you are advised to do so by no later than close of business on Tuesday, 23 December 2008.
Please note, however, that theses submitted in the week beginning 22 December 2008 will not be sent for examination until after the University re-opens on 5 January 2008.
Emergency contacts
Please ensure your Emergency Contact details are up to date, with current phone numbers, and include at least one contact in South Australia. These details can be checked and changed via Access Adelaide.
Discipline/School/Centre Contacts for 2009
To ensure all correspondence is reaching the correct person can you please advise the Graduate Centre if there will be any changes to who will be in the role of Head of School or Discipline, or Post Graduate Coordinator. Please note that we only require the details of positions relating to our Higher Degrees Research students.
16th International Student Congress of Medical Sciences
From Tuesday the 2nd until Friday 5th June 2009 the 16th edition International Student Congress of Medical Sciences (ISCOMS) will take place at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands. In 2008, 706 students out of 54 countries attended the congress.
At the ISCOMS, students can present their research either as a moderate poster, as an oral presentation or as a plenary presentation. Accompanying the presentations we offer a broad range of workshops and lectures from key-note speakers. Students can visit the congress as a presenting participant or as a non-presenting participant. There is also an extensive social programme.
We can already present Prof. Dr. Ferid Murad, a nobel prize winner, as one of our key-note speakers for this years edition of the ISCOMS. This year we also have a new addition to the programme for dentistry students.
More information see flyer or visit website.
Closing for Christmas
The Graduate Centre will be closed from 1.00 pm on Wednesday, 24 December 2008 and will re-open for business at 9.00 am on Monday, 5 January 2009.
Any e-mails and telephone messages left during this time will be attended to as soon as possible after the Centre re-opens.
