PART I
Preamble:
The Center for Postgraduate Studies (C.P.G.S) at the Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) is privileged to provide the following guidelines on research, papers, proposals, and report writing. It is very important that researchers and all graduate students get familiar with these guidelines since they constitute the roadmap for all to follow. Being well conversant with them at an early stage makes research and graduate studies less tedious and saves a lot of time. All Postgraduate programmes at IUIU are done by coursework and dissertation. Therefore the procedure for submission of a research report or dissertation/thesis presumes completion of the coursework component first. Currently however, PhDs by research alone are accepted at IUIU under the Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic Language ( FISAL). Masters degrees are to run for a minimum of two years and a maximum of four years, while PhDs run for a minimum of three years and a maximum of five years.
Before students are admitted to PhD programs, they must have developed a proposal, which is an admission requirement at this level. Masters students are required to submit a concept paper not exceeding one page.
The research roadmap
- Students are advised to seriously think about their research topics as early as when they are still studying research methods.(Usually in the first semester of the first year of study),
- By the end of the semester in which they study research methods, students should have developed a research topic, and a draft proposal should be ready for presentation in a Mini Defence (MD), to the Faculty Higher Degrees Committee (FHDC) at a later date.
- >The Department must approve every topic and propose a supervisor before students get on with formulating a draft proposal. Faculties should draft areas of interest from which students will chose the research topics.
- By the end of semester II of the first year each student should have a supervisor with whom he/she should work on the proposal.
- When the supervisor finds a student’s proposal suitable for research, he/she should endorse it for onward submission to the Dean through the Head of the Department.
- All endorsed proposals should be forwarded to the Dean for preparation of a mini-defense done at the F.H.D.C within a month from the date of submission.
- After defense of a proposal, students should proceed with research putting into consideration the recommendations and observations of the F.H.D.C.
- By the beginning of the second semester of the second year of study, students should be in advanced stages of data analysis and report writing.
- Both supervisors and students will submit a progress report, each to the CPGS and copied to the Dean, after every two months.
- Five copies of the finished report/dissertation, endorsed by the supervisor shall be submitted to the C.P.G.S through the HOD and the Dean, for preparation of the oral examination (the viva voce exam).
- By the end of the same semester (semester II, second year) students should have defended their reports before a viva panel.
- After the viva voce examinations, a student shall receive a written report from the C.P.G.S outlining the corrections or changes he/she has to effect before submitting the final report. This has to be done within a minimum of two weeks and a maximum of six months from the date of viva voce sitting, depending on the intensity of the corrections.
- The internal examiner, who is a member of the viva voce panel, shall always certify that the student has fully complied with the recommendations of the panel and shall submit a written report to that effect addressed to the Director of the C.P.G.S.
- A student will then submit a copy of the approved report/dissertation/thesis to the center for final crosschecking before proceeding to make the six hard-cover-bound copies, together with a soft copy (CD) of their report.
- After submission of the six copies, the faculties shall process student’s results for approval by the Executive Board after which students will be free to collect their academic transcripts from the Academic Registrar’s office.
- No submitted report shall be processed for internal and external examination before a student has fully paid all the University dues.
- Schedule for research process:
- First Year, Semester 1 – Teaching of research methods and topic formulation.
- First Year, Semester 2 – Proposal Development and MD.
- Second Year Semester 1 – Data collection Report writing.
- Second Year Semester 2 – Submission and Viva Voce examination.
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