A Major Decision to Make: Durham? or St. Andrews?
I am writing to ask for the prayers of all my readers. I have a very big decision to make very soon. My PhD supervisor, Professor David Brown, is leaving the University of Durham and is going to St. Andrews University in Scotland. I am at the end of my research and writing and obviously I need to make an important decision.
I have paid the full tuition at Durham already and do not owe any more money. I will have to pay a small continuation fee at Durham if I remain. If I do remain, I will have to get a new supervisor to finish off my research and writing. St. Andrews would accept me as a continuing student and I could remain with David Brown and get my research PhD from St. Andrews if I leave with him. I am disappointed of course but this is life! I am not sure what I am going to do at this stage as I am waiting to see what Durham is going to offer me. i have to make a decision within the next week or so. I would appreciate your prayers and any academic advice you could offer. Thanks!
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I have paid the full tuition at Durham already and do not owe any more money. I will have to pay a small continuation fee at Durham if I remain. If I do remain, I will have to get a new supervisor to finish off my research and writing. St. Andrews would accept me as a continuing student and I could remain with David Brown and get my research PhD from St. Andrews if I leave with him. I am disappointed of course but this is life! I am not sure what I am going to do at this stage as I am waiting to see what Durham is going to offer me. i have to make a decision within the next week or so. I would appreciate your prayers and any academic advice you could offer. Thanks!
If you are interested in seeing The Good University report on Theological Departments in the UK, here is how they currently stack up! Click on the link provided.
posted by Fr. Jeffrey at 2:09 PM
O God, most glorious, most bountiful, accept, we humbly beseech thee, our praises and thanksgivings for thy holy Catholic Church, the mother of us all who bear the name of Christ; for the faith which it hath conveyed in safety to our time, and the mercies by which it hath enlarged and comforted the souls of men; for the virtues which it hath established upon earth, and the holy lives by which it glorifieth both the world and thee; to whom, O blessed Trinity (+), be ascribed all honour, might, majesty and dominion, now and for ever. Amen.
4 Comments:
Too have problems like that! (Green with Envy!)
If you stay at Durham, whatever new supervisor you get may make you jump through a whole new set of hoops. You know the horror stories. If you move with your current supervisor, at least you know you have a sympathetic advisor and you know what he expects.
The Lord be with you!
Dear Father:
Not sure what to suggest.
However, a similar situation arose with my PhD dissertation...we have got permission to do it via internet or on a 'distance' ed sort of thing...for me the money and fees were the big deal...I think that is because even the most backward institutions recognize the horrendous land distances we face here in Canada.
Also I enjoy you earlier posting with our Russ Orth icon of the 'Strastnaya' or BVM of the Passion.
Thanks for both of the comments! I have made a decision and I will post on it in just a bit.
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