Appointment of Examiners for Higher Degree Candidates by Research (FOR MA Students)

School of Humanities

Student Name / Degree / Title of Thesis / Supervisor(s) / University
Examiner
(Lecturers and Senior Lecturers cannot be internal examiners)
(Internal Examiner should be from within the same school) / 2nd Examiner
(2nd Examiner can be internal or external for MA students)
(External Examiners must be outside of NTU – e.g. NUS, SMU or Foreign Universities)
(External Examiners must be senior faculty staff of the rank Assoc Prof or Full Prof)
Name:
Matric Number: / M.A. / Name of Supervisor:
Designation: / Name of University Examiner:
Designation: / Examiner 2
Name:
Designation (Prof/Assoc Prof):
The following details are to be completed only if examiner is external:
Country:
Full Mailing Address:
(Full address is required for Honorarium Payment)
Email Address:
(Please attach CV if external)
**Please attach the signed letter of undertaking for all external examiners.
Associate Chair (Research)’s Signature :
______
(A/P Goh Geok Yian)
School of Humanities
Date: ______/ Associate Provost (Graduate Education) :
May I have your endorsement, please.
Approved / Not approved
______
Signature / Date

Note: Please obtain email agreements from all examiners and attach it with this form. The following (in softcopies) are to be submitted to the school for processing at least 3 months before thesis submission:

  1. This Appointment of Examiners Form.
  2. Email agreement from University Examiner and Examiner 2.
  3. Completed and Signed Letter of Invitation and Undertaking for External Examiners (This only applies if there is an external examiner appointed).
  4. CV of External Examiners.
  5. Alumni Registration and Survey Form

Last Updated: 13 Apr 2017

[Date]

Prof ABC

Address 1

Dear Professor ABC

Letter of Invitation as External Examiner for MA Examination

Thesis Title: XXX

Candidate: XXX

Supervisor: XXX

We would like to invite you to serve as External Examiner for the above-mentioned student’s thesis.

The appointed External Examiner will receive an honorarium of US$300. Please submit a report on the examination to our Office of Academic Services within two months upon receipt of the thesis.

Additionally, the appointed External Examiner is expected to observe confidentiality in the thesis and examination process.

The student’s thesis is due for examination and we require your consent before we can send the thesis to you. If you are agreeable, please confirm that your mailing address below is correct

[The Mailing Address]

Thank you and we look forward to your favourable reply.

Yours sincerely

Name

Designation

Name of School

Nanyang Technological University

EncUndertaking to safeguard confidential information

UNDERTAKING TO SAFEGUARD CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

To:

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

50 Nanyang Avenue

Singapore 639798

MA Student:
Project:

1.I hereby acknowledge that during my participation as an examiner of the above MA Student’s qualifying exam that the MA Student may present or disclose to me certain confidential information, patents, patent applications, patent drafts, copyright material, know-how, technical information, operational procedures, methods, techniques, procedures, experiments, results, plans of future research, and any other information relating to the activities and research carried on by NTU and the MA Student, all of which are strictly confidential or proprietary to NTU (“Confidential Information”)

2.I undertake at all times to maintain strictly secret and confidential and not directly or indirectly use or disclose or divulge the said thesis and Confidential Information or any part thereof, to any person, firm or company, whatsoever without your prior written consent.

3.The preceding obligations of confidentiality shall not apply with respect to any information that:-

3.1is or was already known to me at the time of disclosure to it as evidenced by written records, or

3.2is at the time of disclosure or thereafter becomes public knowledge through no fault or omission of myself; or

3.3is lawfully obtained by myself from a third party who is not under any confidentiality obligation to NTU; or

3.4is independently developed by myself as evidenced by written record.

4. I will not make or retain any copies of the said thesis and Confidential Information or otherwise disseminate the same without your prior written consent. Upon request from NTU, I shall promptly return to NTU all documents containing Confidential Information and all copies and reproductions thereof.

5. This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement and understanding between NTU and myself as to the subject matter hereof, and none of the terms of this Agreement shall be amended or modified except in writing signed by NTU and myself.

6. This Undertaking shall be governed and construed in accordance with Singapore laws and I submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore courts.

UNDERTAKING TO SAFEGUARD CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

Signed by

______

Name:

NRIC / Passport No.:

Date:

Witnessed by

______

Name:

NRIC / Passport No.:

Date: