Compulsory "Drittel-Regel" in Physics Faculty abolished

The student represantatives and DR.FSU successfully advocated for an abolishment of the so far compulsory "Drittel-Regel" ("third rule") in the Faculty Council of Physics and Astronomics. The "Drittel-Regel" was changed into an optional regulation. This removes a considerable and unnessecary obstacle for PhD candidates in physics and astronomy.

The "Drittel-Regel" says that speeches in defense of the PhD thesis have to consist of three parts with equal time length: One third should be comprehensible for persons with knowledge of the specific topic, one third for persons with knowledge of the special field and one third should be comprehensible for persons without specific knowledge of the special field. This intervention into the free structuring of the PhD defense could be removed now.