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I am not sure why people post these questions. How is the audience supposed to answer the question without knowing the relevant information? Can you share your

• fabian2k 4y ago
  You can never judge the individual case, but you can give possible options on how to proceed. Whether this PhD student will succeed with them depends on the details we cannot know, but that is still useful information for them and others that read this and are in somewhat similar situations.
  • aborsy 4y ago
    There is limited useful advice that could be given (which is also common sense). It’s unusual that the person says they have 8 papers and the supervisor thinks he still doesn’t meet the requirements. If they have 8 meaningful papers in 4 years, no supervisor will be able to defend an argument to the graduate office for stopping the thesis (usually, they would want to promote such success in the department). The supervisor may think, the student is productive, maybe he could stay longer. But that’s far from an argument that the student doesn’t meet the requirements. There are regulations, checks and balances, various offices at universities that involve decision making and dispute resolution, etc. It’s not so arbitrary!
• izacus 4y ago
  Why? Because they're desperate, need help and hope for someone, anyone to give them some guidance they don't have locally. Academia can be a horrible environment where whole faculties can be incredibly abusive and strange - outside look is pretty much critical to know whether it's you who's losing their mind or if you're trapped in an asylum. This isn't hard to understand.