TERMS OF STUDY
Postgraduate students are enrolled and participate in the I.P.P. following a relevant announcement by the Secretariat of the I.P.P., which defines the duration of admissions and the supporting documents required for registration.
Postgraduate students have all the rights, benefits and facilities provided for students of the first cycle of studies except for the right to free textbooks. Information about the services provided is published on the website of the I.P.P.
The I.P.P. provides facilities to postgraduate students with disabilities or special educational needs regarding the examination methods and the unhindered access to the educational facilities. Interested parties submit a relevant request to the Curriculum Committee, which decides on a case-by-case basis after consultation with the academic tutor for vulnerable groups and with the teachers.
Postgraduate students admitted to the I.P.P. are obliged to:
- Attend the courses of the I.P.P. Attendance of courses and exercises is mandatory. Permits for absence may only be granted for serious justified reasons. No more than four (4) absences are allowed per lesson.
- Participate in all educational and research activities
- Enroll to the courses on time each semester.
- Submit within the prescribed deadlines the assignments required for each course.
- Take the exams.
- Submit to the Secretariat, along with their diploma thesis to be evaluated, a solemn declaration that there is no evidence of plagiarism.
- Pay the tuition fees within the specified dates.
- Have settled all their financial obligations, as well as any other obligation to the Institution, before receiving the degree. Otherwise, they will not be entitled to take the oath and/or receive the postgraduate diploma.
- If they have received a scholarship, to offer rewarding work where necessary in the academic and educational activities of the I.P.P., such as secretarial or technical support at conferences or seminars.
- It is possible to attend parallel undergraduate or postgraduate programs of the same or another Department, of the same or another Higher Institution.
- Respect and abide by the decisions of the I.P.P.’s bodies as well as academic ethics. Failure to comply with the above, without a substantiated justification, may lead to failure in a course or exclusion from the program.
- All postgraduate students must participate in the electronic evaluation of the courses they attended and of the Program in general, following the invitation of the Director of the I.P.P. and the teachers.
Non-observance of all the above without serious and substantiated justification is a reason for the postgraduate student’s expulsion from the program.
The course of studies of each postgraduate student is monitored by the academic tutor in accordance with the rules of the institution about the academic advisor, which are published on the website of the I.P.P.
Postgraduate students may express any complaint or objection related to their studies following the Rules of the complaint management mechanism, which are published on the website of the I.P.P.
Plagiarism
By submitting any postgraduate thesis, the postgraduate student is obliged to declare that he/she has used the work and the opinions of others always by mentioning the source.
Plagiarism is considered a serious academic offence. Plagiarism is considered to be the copying of someone else’s work, as well as the use of someone else’s work –published or not– without proper reference to the original. The citation of any documentary material, even from the student’s own studies, without relevant reference, may constitute a decision of the Curriculum Committee to expel him/her from the Program.
The decision for the above cases –and after a reasoned recommendation of the supervising professor – is determined by the Curriculum Committee.