I don't really see the problem you have with your existing university. Surely, there must be some regulations which clearly outline the requirements to submit a PhD thesis; both with regard to format etc. but also with regard to training courses.

I strongly recommend to attend the remaining training course, to pay the outstanding course fees as soon as possible and to stop putting yourself into trouble.

Regarding your idea to "fasttrack" at another university, my simple advice is: forget it.

The truth is, it's entirely up to you and your personal work preferences (except in lab-based science PhDs).

Sometimes there will be periods of increased committments, other times will be more relaxed. If you like the 9-5 style and have no other job or teaching committments, you can work 9-5.

I used to work mostly between 8pm and 1pm during my PhD. Sometimes followed by teaching in the mornings, hence the low teaching quality

However, forget all this talk about "having no weekends, no holidays, etc.". That's nonsense. Of course one could choose to work like that but that would be a conscious and perhaps unwise decision, rather than a general expectation.

37 hours per week for 40 weeks per year over a period of three years should be fine.

Sorry, can't do it. You may fall in love and I can't risk that

sorry to repeat myself here, but we can only evaluate if you qualify as a "hot" geek if you post a picture of yourself somewhere.

That's a good advice by Badhaircut.

But at the same time I think it's ridiculous how they (some employers in industry, secretaries, Human Resources) treat us ex-PhD students. Like we've been naughty doing a PhD, if you know what I mean.

"Tentative findings are..."
"Preliminary study"

The rest can be made up - everybody does for conference papers. just shows the hypocricy of the whole business as honesty won't get you accepted.

Perhaps there is some sort of apartheid between students and supervisors I wasn't aware of? But if there is, I don't see why this forum could not benefit from the contributions of advisors.

What strikes me particularly odd is the fact that this forum is extremely well-known amongst PhD students. On the other hand, it is extremely well-known to those professors who regularly advertise PhD positions on the sister site.

Nevertheless we rarely ever hear any views from actual supervisors! So if one of them reads this, get out of the shadow and talk about the PhD experience from the other side. I'm sure loads of supervisors are secretly hanging around on here. Or is Shani in reality a supervisor?

that guy will be offered a Professorial Post straight away, I could imagine.

How many months did it take for them to confirm publication? Did you have to make any revisions?

PhD yes, publication no.

But what counts more in the academic world? Exactly, publications. Luckily I wasn't interested in an academic career, otherwise I would have been in troubly by now.

How many of you have published in a peer-reviewed journal as a first author during your PhD or less than a year after graduation?

I haven't btw.

Congratulations, well done. You've only been started your PhD not long ago and already published - that's something I haven't achieved over the whole course of action.

Besides, I was wrong. The research student actually doesn't generate data, he or she collects data, but the data is already out there. Or is it not? That's almost a philosphical question. What came first, the data or the research student?

Juno, see what the PhD did to me? Now I can't have a trivial conversation without looking for logical flaws and analysing the whole thing. I know, it's too easy to blame the PhD but I really used to be a friendly, nice person. Before I went through Grad School, getting traumatised and damaged for life