Viva, examination, and assessment

This 2007 report contains analysis and discussion of the responses to a questionnaire distributed on the issue of access given to doctoral examiners’ reports.

The report gives some background to the issue of confidentiality of theses, outlines the nature and scope of the survey and then reports and discusses its findings before setting out some conclusions.

This report relates to the regulations governing the freedom of candidates registered for a doctoral degree of a European university to incorporate into their thesis published works based upon the results of the approved research programme.