For Interdisciplinary Degree Programs (IDPs), the chair of the examining committee may not have a full or joint appointment in the primary advisor's major department and must have independence from the student and advisor.
A group of student raft builders clashed with MIT's Housing and Safety Offices over Independence Day after the students built a raft to float on the Charles River during Boston's annual fireworks show.
You wonder about the students' independence". Washington area real estate agents say they increasingly see otherwise savvy young professionals clinging to their parents when they buy a house.
Spain has opted for a huge expansion in the number of its universities, two-thirds of which have been created since 1975, but this has done little to improve either the quality of teaching or the students' independence of thought.
Here in Smithtown, district officials said the open-lunch policy had helped students learn about time management, responsibility and independence, though some of the students said they viewed it more as an escape from cafeteria food and academic pressures.
In conversations with parents, their pride in their offsprings' independence -- evidenced by the students' confident selection of merchandise for the rapidly filling shopping carts -- mingled with a reluctant awareness that the stuff destined for dorm rooms was tangible evidence of the family's emptying suburban nest.
The supervisors perform supervision through different acts which are characterized in the themes allowing the students independence, being there for the students and applying patient-centredness.
They do so, as a supervising team, by allowing the students independence, being there for the students and also focusing on patients.
Planned observations of patient encounters occurred mostly early in the clerkship and the extent of this activity depended on the level of independence the GP granted the student.
Initially, these conversations would centre on practical feedback and on exploring and setting boundaries of independence based on the student's performance and the GP's customary approach.
