Timeline for Can a PhD student co-supervise master students in Germany?
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| Apr 27, 2020 at 8:41 | comment | added | cbeleites | @lighthousekeeper: in the faculties I know, the Gutachter (reviewers) are a subset of the Prüfer (examiners): examiners are also the ones who do the [oral] Master exams. | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 8:39 | comment | added | cbeleites | In the departments I know (in chemistry), there is a distinction between the formal supervisor (i.e. the supervising professor or similar) and informal supervision: the exam regulations mean that a PhD student cannot be the official supervisor, but the supervising professor can delegate day-to-day supervision to whomever they trust to do this. The formal resoonsibility stays with the supervising professor, though. | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 6:37 | comment | added | lighthouse keeper | The differences are not only by discipline, but by department. I'm in CS, too, and the two German departments where I worked did not have the role "Prüfer". Instead, in both cases, there was "Erstgutachter" and "Zweitgutachter", who wrote two independent reports. One department allowed the Zweitgutachter to be a PhD student, whereas the other department required a PhD graduate. In both departments, Betreuer and Erstgutachter were the same person by default (exceptions were possible), and PhD students involved in the supervision could be specified as additional Betreuer. | |
| Apr 26, 2020 at 20:27 | history | answered | O. R. Mapper | CC BY-SA 4.0 |