Conferral Question

Lisapeep

snickerpuss wrote:

Ucd Conferral Schedule
Thats what you need.

Unfortunately, that's no help at all as it doesn't give any dates past November 2006 and I always thought that the conferring ceremony for Science was in December?

Any graduates able to help me out here? Roughly when are the arts and science graduation ceremonies on?

rain on

Lisapeep wrote:

Unfortunately, that's no help at all as it doesn't give any dates past November 2006 and I always thought that the conferring ceremony for Science was in December?

Any graduates able to help me out here? Roughly when are the arts and science graduation ceremonies on?

arts is in early december, if i remember correctly. i think i graduated on like december 5th or something.

singingstranger

After consultation ... the one after the PhD (in Science fields anyway) is the Doctor of Science (DS), which takes about twenty years to get hold of and is VERY selectively awarded on application by some universities. Seemingly the head of the postgrad Computer Science school (or one of those things anyway) applied for his from a British university last year and still hasn't gotten a full decision.

rain on

singingstranger wrote:

After consultation ... the one after the PhD (in Science fields anyway) is the Doctor of Science (DS), which takes about twenty years to get hold of and is VERY selectively awarded on application by some universities. Seemingly the head of the postgrad Computer Science school (or one of those things anyway) applied for his from a British university last year and still hasn't gotten a full decision.

iiinteresting. i was wondering the other day what the difference is between a Ph.D and a D.Phil.. maybe that's it..

Scraggs

rain on wrote:

iiinteresting. i was wondering the other day what the difference is between a Ph.D and a D.Phil.. maybe that's it..

heehee Dr.Phil

arbeitsscheuer

Scraggs wrote:

heehee Dr.Phil

Hilarious.:rolleyes:

Hey peachy, if you don't wanna wear the hat I will! Sure, I'm not going any further in my education anyway, so the "capping" would actually be accurate in my case...:D

Blush_01

rain on wrote:

do you get to wear one at your PhD conferral? or is the implication that men are INFINITELY wise and knowledgeable?

The big puffy mushroom hats are the PhD ones. Both women and men wear them.

Scraggs, I'm pretty sure they're the same thing. An M.Phil. is a multidisciplinary masters, isn't it? I know that all the Medieval Studies masters courses that are multidisciplinary are M.Phils anyway. And a PhD makes you a doctor of philosophy in <insert discipline here> as far as I know. At least that's what I was vaguely told at the Postgrad fair in the RDS. Therefore a D. Phil and PhD are the same (the Ph is from Phil, isn't it?).

Am I even vaguely on the right track?

Blush_01

Hats look so stupid on me. It's not my fault, it's just that every hat ever made is wrong, that's all.

Red Alert, as far as I know it's pretty soon after Arts breaks up for christmas, class-wise. My mum graduated from UCC on the day of my 21st, which was in December last year.

singingstranger

The DS people get the same puffy hat as the PhD people do.

boneless

Can I wear my old army uniform? I think that would look nice and it's the only tie I have anyhow... and the Red Band Cap looks cool!!