title: Assisting the High Administrative Court in Restricting Too Broad a Concept of Academic Judgment.
abstract: I have received substantial monetary compensation and a formal apology from my first doctoral school, and a Ph.D. from another university. This essay describes my personal view on discussing the boundaries of academic judgment and research supervision with the ombudsman agency for higher education, and at the High Administrative Court of England and Wales. The Court's judicial doctrine addresses substantial research accountability matters. It clarifies that although the Court and ombudsman agency must not interfere with academic judgment, not everything done by an academic can be considered as academic judgment. A Ph.D. supervisor can seriously fail to perform his/her duties.
authors.affiliation: a ISEG , University of Lisbon , Lisboa , Portugal.|b University of Strathclyde , Glasgow , Scotland , UK.
authors.forename: Tiago
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cardao-Pito
mesh_terms: D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008875:Middle Aged
keywords: Education law; office of the Independent Adjudicator, Ph.D. degree; research supervision