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chest beating time! An igbo man becomes best phd awardee iin england abi europe. Hmmm op let me correct you for free, he is not a nigerian, he is an igbo man and a biafran! If you are angry about my post, make una produce a better candidate! Igbo kwenu!!!!! Yah igbo kwenu!!!!! Yah igbo kwezuo nu!!!!!!! Yooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to him.

me igbo brother

Txonyi:
chest beating time! An igbo man becomes best phd awardee iin england abi europe. Hmmm op let me correct you for free, he is not a nigerian, he is an igbo man and a biafran! If you are angry about my post, make una produce a better candidate! Igbo kwenu!!!!! Yah igbo kwenu!!!!! Yah igbo kwezuo nu!!!!!!! Yooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

I am with you 100% all the way....

lol

umu be anyi ndi nkuka

very funny thread

crotonite:
I am with you 100% all the way....

speaktome:
Bro did u read Animal farm by George Alwell in ur second schoo days?
What happen in dat novel will soon take place!
Just be watching!!!

I didn't bro, i told u d fact

steppin:
Try and post something others can understand, ode!

I can post whatever I wish, if you can't read it, go back to school.

I'm really sorry to have to say this, especially as it will make me sound like a bitter hater..

As far as I know, UK universities do not grade PhDs against each other the way they could do for Masters and Undergraduate degrees. It would be difficult to judge one PhD thesis as being the 'best'. What does happen is that candidates may win awards for thier PhD research, but I could not find any evidence online or otherwise to suggest that this is the case.

It could also be that he passed his PhD immediately without corrections, which is actually quite rare I think. So kudos to him if this is what has happened.

prettyrosiemua:
Immediately I saw the Ndukwe I knew he was from Abia state. Keep representing doc.

Are you from Abia State?

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ocheejemb:
I'm really sorry to have to say this, especially as it will make me sound like a bitter hater..

As far as I know, UK universities do not grade PhDs against each other the way they could do for Masters and Undergraduate degrees. It would be difficult to judge one PhD thesis as being the 'best'. What does happen is that candidates may win awards for thier PhD research, but I could not find any evidence online or otherwise to suggest that this is the case.

It could also be that he passed his PhD immediately without corrections, which is actually quite rare I think. So kudos to him if this is what has happened.

Erm, but you actually sound like an ignorant hater... PhDs in the UK are graded according to certain KPIs... That's the first thing my supervisor here at UCL.

londongal03:
Biafrans got brain! r u satisfied?

He is a NIGERIA.

madridsta007:
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Erm, but you actually sound like an ignorant hater... PhDs in the UK are graded according to certain KPIs... That's the first thing my supervisor here at UCL.

I can assure you I am not ignorant, but I admit I might be a hater. You'll get there if you stay in academia long enough.

UCL is nice, well done on getting in there. I wouldn't call what the criteria PhD's are graded on 'KPIs' although I can see why one may refer to them as that. Since you must be novel and thorough and scientific and expand knowledge and all. But the thing is every PhD thesis is so unique that it would be hard to grade one against another. I do know some PhD theses win prizes anyway, but I'm not sure how this process works. However, there I could find no evidence to buttress this claim that this PhD was awarded as best in his University.

ocheejemb:
I can assure you I am not ignorant, but I admit I might be a hater. You'll get there if you stay in academia long enough.

UCL is nice, well done on getting in there. I wouldn't call what the criteria PhD's are graded on 'KPIs' although I can see why one may refer to them as that. Since you must be novel and thorough and scientific and expand knowledge and all. But the thing is every PhD thesis is so unique that it would be hard to grade one against another. I do know some PhD theses win prizes anyway, but I'm not sure how this process works. However, there I could find no evidence to buttress this claim that this PhD was awarded as best in his University.

'You might be a hater'

I think this sums it up.

Every PhD is unique, true. However, every PhD goes through a scoring system during viva. Hence one can easily get a rating at least, within his faculty. At the very least.

madridsta007:
'You might be a hater'

I think this sums it up.

Every PhD is unique, true. However, every PhD goes through a scoring system during viva. Hence one can easily get a rating at least, within his faculty. At the very least.

Maybe you should familiarise yourself with your school's PhD requirements and show me where either of the words 'score', 'grade' or 'rating' is used:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/srs/academic-regulations/docs/rd-section2.pdf

I stand by my original claim. There is no evidence to suggest that this guy was the best PhD student in Newcastle or whatever these blogs claim. His name does not appear anywhere on the website or on the Internet.

ocheejemb:
Maybe you should familiarise yourself with your school's PhD requirements and show me where either of the words 'score', 'grade' or 'rating' is used:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/srs/academic-regulations/docs/rd-section2.pdf

I stand by my original claim. There is no evidence to suggest that this guy was the best PhD student in Newcastle or whatever these blogs claim. His name does not appear anywhere on the website or on the Internet.

Thanks for the link; I think I know my Uni quite well and I have near-daily meetings with my supervisors.

As for the guy's distinction- I do not need to research about it. You already described yourself as a 'hater'- so anyone would view your subsequent comments in that light.

madridsta007:
Thanks for the link; I think I know my Uni quite well and I have near-daily meetings with my supervisors.

As for the guy's distinction- I do not need to research about it. You already described yourself as a 'hater'- so anyone would view your subsequent comments in that light.

If you have near-daily meetings with your supervisor then it is strange that you do not seem to know how the UK PhD is administered. You can pass or fail a PhD. There are no distinctions. You can pass a PhD without any corrections suggested by your examiners - which means it was more or less flawless, which is an 'implied' distinction especially in my field. However, this does not necessarily mean your PhD research was of better quality than someone who passed with minor corrections.

Maybe I should clarify what I meant by being a hater.

Every Academic is trained, especially at PhD level, to be extremely critical. You never take any information presented to you at face value, and you ensure that any claim made is backed up by evidence. In many ways, this resembles 'hating', and this is why I described myself as such.

ocheejemb:
If you have near-daily meetings with your supervisor then it is strange that you do not seem to know how the UK PhD is administered. You can pass or fail a PhD. There are no distinctions. You can pass a PhD without any corrections suggested by your examiners - which means it was more or less flawless, which is an 'implied' distinction especially in my field. However, this does not necessarily mean your PhD research was of better quality than someone who passed with minor corrections.

Maybe I should clarify what I meant by being a hater.

Every Academic is trained, especially at PhD level, to be extremely critical. You never take any information presented to you at face value, and you ensure that any claim made is backed up by evidence. In many ways, this resembles 'hating', and this is why I described myself as such.

Good you have described what you meant by 'hating'; for a term that subjectively ambiguous, you could have spared many people the unnecessary ceberal rigmarole.

And believe me, I do know how a PhD is administered. However, Prizes and awards for it differ in principle. Or at least contextually. A friend of mine won an award for the best PhD thesis at Edinburgh; however in Swansea, there's hardly a prize of that nature. I do not know about Newcastle, I must confess. I feel you should- as you have clearly not done so- make contacts directly with Newcastle and find out if and how PhD thesis are awarded prizes.