Prof.Silas RwakabambaStudents finalizing their undergraduate studies at the National University of Rwanda (NUR) will no longer have to orally defend their dissertations before a lecturers’ jury to complete their studies, the Rector, Professor Silas Rwakabamba confirmed yesterday.
In the new arrangement, students will be submitting their works to the university after only two lecturers, the student’s research director and a proof reader, correct them and give marks basing on a written work.
“The logic behind it [stopping the oral defense] is that we have to keep up with other East African universities,” explained NUR’s Rector Prof. Silas Lwakabamba on phone, adding, “They [defenses] were taking so long yet students don’t have to delay.”
Prof. Lwakabamba said that the process of oral presentation of the dissertations involved three to four lecturers comprising the jury to mark the student after defending.
Accordingly, these would spend a long time reading the work thus delaying the students’ passing yet the dissertation is one of the university’s assignments
He said that the university had a big number of students who graduated this year partly because most of them had delayed in the process of defending their dissertation works.
“Most of it was a backload,” he said of the last graduation of over 3000 students at the university in March.[more]http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=13642&article=9213
In the new arrangement, students will be submitting their works to the university after only two lecturers, the student’s research director and a proof reader, correct them and give marks basing on a written work.
“The logic behind it [stopping the oral defense] is that we have to keep up with other East African universities,” explained NUR’s Rector Prof. Silas Lwakabamba on phone, adding, “They [defenses] were taking so long yet students don’t have to delay.”
Prof. Lwakabamba said that the process of oral presentation of the dissertations involved three to four lecturers comprising the jury to mark the student after defending.
Accordingly, these would spend a long time reading the work thus delaying the students’ passing yet the dissertation is one of the university’s assignments
He said that the university had a big number of students who graduated this year partly because most of them had delayed in the process of defending their dissertation works.
“Most of it was a backload,” he said of the last graduation of over 3000 students at the university in March.[more]http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=13642&article=9213
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