General Regulations for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy: Part 1 Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

1. Any member of the University who has been admitted to the status of Student for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy and who has satisfied the conditions prescribed by the General Regulations for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy may supplicate for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 

2. The Education Committee shall have power to make and vary such regulations as may be necessary for carrying out the duties laid upon it and upon the Registrar by this section. 

3. For the purposes of this section the words ‘board’, ‘faculty board’, ‘board of the faculty’, or ‘divisional board’ shall include any body which has power to admit students to read for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 

4. Students for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy who are not graduates of the University may wear a long gown of black stuff, whose shape and ornaments shall be in accordance with a pattern approved by the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors and preserved in the University Offices, Wellington Square.