Expectations
Being a certain type of PhD candidate causes that it may differ what you can expect of the university. This holds for example for teaching, specific organisational support, or financials. Please see this Table below for a brief overview.
| Type 1: employed PhD | Type 2: Scholarship PhD | Type 3: Externally financed PhD | Type 4: Own resources PhD | |
| Access to internal courses | Yes | Yes to content courses from the faculties and library courses, no to P&D (HR) courses | Yes to content courses and from the faculties and library courses, no to P&D (HR) courses | Yes to content courses from the faculties and library courses, no to P&D (HR) courses |
| Need of validating the Master's degree | Yes (if non-Dutch)
| Yes (if non-Dutch)
| Yes (if non-Dutch)
| Yes (if non-Dutch)
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| Receiving HR-like financials from the university (like wage, Christmas bonus). | Yes | No | No | No |
| Ability to make use of university resources (like the library, emailadress, UMployee) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Receiving a budget for printing and reception cost at the defence | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Go/no go meeting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Develop a Training and Supervision Plan (TSP) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ability to contribute to a PhD organisation (faculty or central level) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Voting rights for the university council | Yes | No | No | No |
| Career support and coaching | Yes | No | No | No |