According to the circular n°03, dated on July 09th, 2019, the preparation and the defense of the doctorate thesis is devoted to the enrolled students starting from the academic year 2016-201. The defense of the LMD doctorate thesis must meet the following conditions:
- A confirmation certificate that the student obtains 180 points (Appendix No. 2 of the Ministerial Resolution No. 547 of June 2, 2016)
- A defense positive report by the supervisor which includes 02 papers:
- A confirming paper that the thesis quality and the determined aims are reached (annex n°01)
- A confirmation document that the scientific publication has a direct relation with the thesis’ topic (annex n°02)
- A document presented by the student confirming at least 3 consecutive and regular years of registration ( annex n°03)
- A document confirming the training committee‘s opinion concerning the doctorate
The defense document:
The document contains:
- The supervisor’s report on thesis ability for discussion (annex n°01 and 02)
- The proposal of the discussion committee by the department’s scientific committee
- PhD student notebook which includes all the information and visas
- A copy of the article or articles published or any other scientific product which has a relation to the thesis
- The defense document is submitted by the thesis’ supervisor to the doctorate training service of the faculties and institutes
- The document and the scientific council minutes shall be sent to the vice rectorate of postgraduate higher education, university accreditation and
scientific research to extract the required documents
The license file for defense:
If the reports are positive, the postgraduate service of the faculty or the institute send the defense document to the vice rectorate of postgraduate higher education, university accreditation, scientific research and postgraduate higher education in order to obtain a license for discussion. The president of the defense jury presents a summary of the total reports added to his personal report in a deadline of no more than 15 days from the date of receiving the entire file. The discussion file contains the following documents:
- The original evaluation reports of the members of the defense jury.
- A request submitted by the university includes the date of the discussion.
Once the license for the discussion has been signed by the president of the university, the faculty in charge is required to announce the date of the discussion by means of posters and the official website of the university
The defense process:
The discussion shall be public in the institution, in the presence of the members, as well as in its specific date. After discussion and following the deliberations, the committee decides the success of the candidate or his postponement.
- After the thesis defense, the candidate must do the required corrections according to the reservations put by the defense jury.
- After dealing with the remarks of the defense jury, the president of this latter declares the lifting of reservations
- The institution grants the students the success certificate after the confirmation of publishing a thesis summary in both official languages or one of them and in the French and English languages on the electronic website of the registration’s institution
- Important: All scientific theft or attempted plagiarism or fraud in the results or fraud related to the scientific work required in the thesis and legally established during the discussion or after it exposes its owner to nullifying the discussion or withdrawing the scientific title without prejudice to the penalties stipulated in the legislation and regulation in force.
The provisional success certificate:
To extract the LMD doctorate provisional success certificate, the administrative services of the faculty or the institute sends a file to the vice rectorate of postgraduate higher education, university accreditation, scientific research and postgraduate higher education. The file consists of:
01-The defense deliberation minutes
02- A confirmation receipt of submitting a copy of doctorate thesis signed by the library’s director
03- A copy of the corrected thesis with CD of the electronic version of the thesis.
04- An acquittal signed by the library’s responsible of the faculty or institute and the central library’s responsible
05- A submission receipt of the thesis’ numeric copy on the university website
06- A signed certificate by the supervisor and the defense committee’s president in case of the thesis is subjected to preservations in the defense minutes
07- A thesis digitization receipt
08- A birth certificate of the concerned
09- The announcement of the defense