Evaluation
The academic commission will assess the doctoral student annually, on the basis of:
The aforementioned documents must be provided through the GAUR application, as specified in the corresponding manuals.
The assessment will be carried out on the specific dates set in the official schedule and pursuant to the Doctoral School regulations on doctoral programme assessment. These regulations include information regarding how to appeal against a negative assessment. As indicated in the regulations, said appeal may be brought in the first instance before the Academic Commission itself, and in the second instance, it may be brought before the Doctoral School (DocS). Both appeals must use the official forms available in the regulations.
In any case, the doctoral students can always check the result of their assessment, as can their directors, through the GAUR application, as indicated in the corresponding manuals.
Continuation in a doctorate programme
Pursuant to article 11.7 of Royal Decree 99/2011, a positive annual evaluation by the Academic Commission of the Doctorate Programme, both of the Research Plan and of the Activities Document, along with the reports that the Tutor and Doctoral Thesis Supervisor must issue in the GAUR application, is an essential requirement to continue with the programme.
Once the evaluation period established by the Academic Commissions has come to an end, and in accordance with the registration calendar established by the Post-Graduate Commission, the issuance of the second registration for all evaluated students shall be processed.
In the event of a negative evaluation, which must be duly justified, the doctorate student must be once again evaluated within six months, to which end the student must prepare a new research plan. In the event that a negative evaluation is once again handed down, the doctorate student shall be definitively removed from the programme.