Internal examiner

How it is used

Institutional rules determine eligibility and the division of examining roles.

Example sentences

1. The internal examiner explained the university's examination procedure before we began.

   The examiner brings knowledge of the awarding institution.

2. My supervisor could not serve as internal examiner under the department's rules.

   Local rules restrict who may take the role.

Common collocations

• appoint an internal examiner
• internal examiner report

Related terms

• thesis defenseAn oral examination in which a candidate presents a thesis and answers questions from a committee of examiners, who then decide the result.
• thesis committeeA group of academics, including the supervisor, who guide and assess a graduate student's thesis and usually examine it at the final defense.

More terms: Graduate Study and Supervision

• supervisor
• PhD
• postgraduate
• research proposal
• grant
• research assistant
• faculty
• qualifying exam
• coursework
• doctoral candidate
• graduate student
• doctoral supervision