{"id":6471,"date":"2020-08-18T09:27:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=6471"},"modified":"2020-08-18T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:27:31","slug":"doctoral-exams-deadlines-for-december-31-2020-program-end-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-6471","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral Exams Deadlines for December 31, 2020 Program End Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for submission of Nominations for External Examiner for PhD candidates wanting to complete on the timeline for December 31, 2020 Program Completion is this Friday, August 21. The deadline for these forms is a little flexible, but they should come in by the end of next week, to reduce the likelihood of a delay in the invitation process.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, the other dates candidates need to meet are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 FRIDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2020 \u2013 Doctoral dissertation (and supporting documentation) submitted to Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for external examination.<br \/>\n\u2022 MONDAY, 14 DECEMBER, 2020 \u2013 Last Day for Final Doctoral Oral Examination<br \/>\n\u2022 FRIDAY, 8 JANUARY, 2021 \u2013 Acceptance of final, approved doctoral dissertation by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies<\/p>\n<p>We also have an information session about the Virtual Defence process on August 26. This session has been advertised in the regular Monday updates from GradUpdate, and interested students can register online.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<br \/>\nRobyn<\/p>\n<p>Robyn Starkey<br \/>\nDoctoral Exams Coordinator<br \/>\nOffice of the Dean | Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia 170 \u2013 6371 Crescent Road | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada<br \/>\nPhone 604 822 3989<br \/>\nrobyn.starkey@ubc.ca<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for submission of Nominations for External Examiner for PhD candidates wanting to complete on the timeline for December 31, 2020 Program Completion is this Friday, August 21. The deadline for these forms is a little flexible, but they should come in by the end of next week, to reduce the likelihood of a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}