Committee for Postgraduate Research

Task/purpose and type: The Committee for Postgraduate Research meets quarterly to consider research degree-related matters on behalf of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) of Stellenbosch University, for eventual approval by the SU Senate, the highest academic body of the university.

Forthcoming meeting dates and agenda cut-off dates of the CPR are as follows:

These dates are also published in the FMHS almanac along with other core dates and deadlines.

The Committee for Postgraduate Research (CPR) considers research-related matters on behalf of the FMHS. This includes policy and regulations pertaining to research and postgraduate studies, new research degrees for inclusion in the SU Calendar, admission to doctoral research, interruption of studies, supervisors and examiner nominations for research degrees, and the recommendation of postgraduate research degree results.

Membership of the CPR comes with the obligation to participate in the quarterly meetings of the committee; to keep the member's home environment informed of relevant decisions; and to serve on PhD proposal / protocol review committees.

The Tygerberg Doctoral Office allocates CPR representatives to review panels, though it is up to the committee chair to select a mutually suitable date and make other arrangements. The main task of a CPR representative on a doctoral review panel is to ensure that the committee was correctly constituted by the chair, that the standard proposal / protocol review process is followed, that all the necessary panel members (have adequate opportunity to) participate, and that the Form A3 is duly and comprehensively completed (all fields being required). When a CPR representative is equipped to do so, they may also provide a full review report based on domain expertise. The role of CPR representative and of panel chairperson can overlap with that of domain expert, but the role of chair cannot overlap with that of CPR representative. The primary rationale for the central allocation of reviews is to promote an even work division among CPR members with respect to panel reviews.

Committee Composition

Standard Items

Agenda Requests

PPC Report Format

Note: Please send all submissions to tyg-phd@sun.ac.za sooner rather than later, as final SU cut-off dates lead tightly into bi-annual graduation cut-off dates as determined by the SU Senate.​​​

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