NC. I need some advice please.
I was 'invited' on to the supervision team of an international student when he first started in September 2014. The studentship is paid for by his government. Since then the other two supervisors have left so another two were roped into the team to replace them. So there are now three of us on the supervision team covering various aspects of the research- me the substantive area, a colleague the methodology and another colleague the context (PhD being done about the far east)- but none of us are the original supervisors.
This student really is not good at all. The work just doesn't have the depth needed for postgraduate study and would struggle to scrape a 2:2 at third year undergraduate level actually. He seems to have no idea about theory- this is a Politics PhD- and hasn't engaged with any of the main literature in the area.
As a supervision team we've repeatedly given him feedback and directed him towards literature but this has all fallen on deaf ears to the point where I'm actually very pissed off that I've wasted my time.
In June he had his review meeting where he was turned down from upgrade from MPhil to PhD. Since then we've been working with him to develop the work to get through the second attempt review. However, it won't get through and, TBH, I'm quite glad about it because I feel that I'm banging my head against a brick wall getting through to this guy.
My questions are-
Does anyone have experience of this?
I've heard that international students in particular are likely to kick up a stink about this, complain, lobby, threaten to sue, is this the case in your experience? If so, how do I deal with this?
What are the repercussions of this for me? I'm still on probation and I'm aware it won't look good on my record to have a student asked to withdraw but how serious is this?
Any advice on how to deal with the situation happily received.
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One of my PhD students is going to be asked to withdraw in a couple of weeks.
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WindyBlows · 09/11/2015 15:59
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