Dear people on the forum, I was attending my first year of Phd from Oct 2013, having been through a terrible arrangement of supervisory support and I didn't pass the proposal approval panal as a result. That has left me with a terrible outcome being asked to terminate my studies according to the penal rules. However, as I was given a chance of appealing the decisions made by the school chancellor to the University Academic Board Committee.

I appeal with the best efforts I can to inform them the problematic allocation of supervisory support to me as also asking my school to reconsider their decision. Unbelievably, the University Academic Board unanimously support my appeal and suggesting the chancellor to reconsider his decisions (by giving 3 months till Feb)

In the mean time, I have also been applying to other university just in case, thankfully I have also received offers from other universities for a Jan start of the new course...

Now here's the real challenge for me....

As being an International student, I am legally need to renew my visa if I decided to change my university for Phd study. However, here's the UKBA rule

'' The eight year limit will affect students applying for Tier 4 leave after having already completed a PhD in the UK; further leave under Tier 4 will not be granted if the student has spent eight years or more studying at degree level or above on either a Tier 4 (General) Student visa, a Student Visa issued before 31 March 2009, or a combination of the two.''

As I have already spent 5 years under PHD studies, only spent 1 year for the school I am in (However, it's not properly completed as I am also undergone an appeal process), If I am changing school by withdrawing my current one, that means I need to renew my visa with the new university,How should interpret my special case to that rule above, because I really want to change school for the better after winning that appeal!

I posted a thread about reapplying a new phd after failing my first one as the subject interest didn't work with me with my supervisors. Now I really need to apply a new and start fresh.

The problem is should I ever mention this year of failure in my CV. If I hide it, would the new university know I failed the first one? What should I do maximize my chance of getting another phd and start fresh? Thank you

Thanks for your advise, it's been a difficult one to experience through.
I may consult with my older teachers for references
I think I need to hide this year in my CV and move on with a better strategy for my new applications.

If they have let me fail, would they publish my information out there which could effect my secondary chance?

I was the first year registered student for Mphil/Phd. It has been a shaky year for me since the beginning as I couldn't find my supervisors fully engaging with my research topic. Every time when I was trying hard to gather clues from them, they were either not on the same chapter with me or they just couldn't care less...Since then I knew I was at the wrong subject area for research with the wrong type of supervision for initiating intellectual debates...However, I have been so passive and naive by thinking about everything would turn out well if I bend my freewill harder in order to please them.

We've had 2 vivas, I failed the first one and gained the feedback from the panel that I should have listened to my supervisors properly. I knew that was going to be shaky one again as the supervisors couldn't share the same arguments among themselves. So I had to try harder by guessing whether they think if it's qualified for submission. The tragic news was my supervisors did approve many of the points I've made for my second submission, and everything sounded quite positive until the final viva turned out to be horrible disaster. Because the penal was still adopting with the original criteria, of which the ones had the contextual direction for research completely altered by me and my supervisors through agreement. My supervisors didn't inform me anything about this so that means I really did sent off a rocket towards another planet...Because I've failed those criteria, I have been asked to terminate...I know the appeal would have no chance because it's based on academic judgement

Now both my supervisors and research office suggested me to withdraw rather let the termination taking its course.I urgently need to apply for another Phd with a different subject area just after this failure. I don't want this termination affect my new applications.is there no chance to get these supervisors as referee or never? Thank you.