2.16 Students should have some appreciation of the financial constraints under which the College has to operate and the wider obligations the College has to train research scientists and engineers. An important part of that research training is the ability to complete work within certain deadlines. It is College policy, however, that no full-time student, registered for research degree study as from September 1995 and thereafter, will be permitted to enter for the examination later than 40 months after initial registration nor to submit the thesis for examination later than 60 months after initial registration. 2.17 Students are reminded that their thesis must be their own work and all quotations from other sources, whether published or unpublished, must be properly acknowledged. Plagiarism is a very serious offence and, where proven against a student, may result in disqualification from the examination for the PhD and exclusion from all future examinations of the University.
Some joint work is permitted, provided it is properly and carefully acknowledged as such.