Template Request for Approval of Term Paper Topic and Supervisor

 

TO:

Academic Director of the Master’s Programme

“Master in Finance”

Professor E.M. Rogova

(full name)

 

FROM:

_____________________________________

(full name)

_____________________________________

_____________________________________

Year ___ student, group No.____

 

 

Request

I hereby request to approve the following topic of my term paper: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

for Year _____, and appoint________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(full name, academic degree, position, subdivision)

 

as my term paper supervisor.

 

 

________________________

(Student’s signature)

“___”_____________ 201

 

________________________

(Supervisor’s signature)

“___”______________ 201

 

Appendix D

The Provisional Timing for the Selection and Approval of the Term Paper Topic
No	Stage	Responsible entities	Period
1.	Topics proposals collection	Departments, research centres and Programme Office	September, 10 – October, 10
2.	Approval of topics by the Academic Council	Academic Director, Academic Council and Programme Office	October, 15
3.	Informing the initiators on approved and declined topics	Programme Office	One working day upon receiving the Academic Council’s decision
4.	Topics changing and finalizing	Departments, research centres, Academic Director and Programme Office	Three working days upon information distribution.
5.	Information on topics publishing at the programme website and in LMS	Programme Office	Before October, 25
6.	Collection of topics proposals from potential employers and students	Departments, research centres and Programme Office	Before November, 10
7.	Approval of initiated topics by the Academic Council	Academic Director, Academic Council and Programme Office	Before November, 20
8.	Selection of topics by students	Programme Office	Before December, 1
9.	Issuing of the order	Director, Dean, Academic Director, Programme Office	Before December, 15
10.	Topic change/clarification	Director, Dean, Academic Director, Academic Council and Programme Office	Not later than 1 month before the final version submission

Appendix E

Supervisor’s Review Template [4]

Federal State Autonomous Institution for Higher Professional Education National Research University Higher School of Economics

St. Petersburg Branch

St. Petersburg School of Economics and Management

Supervisor Review of the Term Paper

 

prepared by _______________________________________________________________________,

(student’s full name)

 

student of Master’s Programme “Master in Finance”, group ____________

Term paper topic: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

 

No.	Evaluation criteria	Grade (on a 10-point scale)
1.	Structure and logical organization
2.	Suitability of employed research methodology for stated goals and objectives
3.	Originality and innovativeness of the term paper
4.	Line of argument adopted to convey main ideas of the term paper
5.	Grammar and formatting
	Final grade to be entered into the student performance record (an arithmetic mean of items 1-5)

 

Comments:

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

Term Paper Supervisor _____________________________________________________________

(signature) (full name, academic degree, position, subdivision)

 

“___”__________________201

Appendix F

Template Request for Change of Term Paper Topic

 

TO:

Academic Supervisor of the Master’s Programme “Master in Finance”

Professor E.M. Rogova

(full name)

 

FROM:

_____________________________________

(full name)

_____________________________________

_____________________________________

Year ___ student, group No.____

 

 

Request

 

I hereby request to change the topic of my term paper from _______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

to ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

 

________________________

(Student’s signature)

“___”_____________ 201

________________________

(Supervisor’s signature)

“___”______________ 201

Appendix G

Template Request for Change of Term Paper Supervisor

 

 

TO:

Academic Supervisor of the Master Program in Academic Supervisor of the Master’s Programme “Master in Finance”

Professor E.M. Rogova

(full name)

 

FROM:

_____________________________________

(full name)

_____________________________________

_____________________________________

Year ___ student, group No.____

 

Request

 

I hereby request to change the supervisor of my term paper for Year ____

_______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

(title in English)

from _______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

(full name, academic degree, position, subdivision of the current supervisor)

_______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

to _______________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

(full name, academic degree, position, subdivision of the new supervisor)

 

________________________

(Student’s signature)

“___”_____________ 201

 

________________________

(Supervisor’s signature)

“___”______________ 201

 

_______________________

(New supervisor’s signature)

“___”____________ 201_

 

[1] Full name

[2] If any

[3] For transliteration use special websites as http://www.translit.ru/

[4] The external reviewer fills the similar form