Decertation n. : Contest for mastery; contention; strife.

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Taxonomy
thesis, dissertation, candidate, defense, theses, examination, student, thesis defense, supervisor, institutions, master's degree, universities, submission, PhD candidate, wordage, research, thesis supervisor, findings.

Defination from the web:
Dissertation. For other uses, see Thesis (disambiguation) ... At the end is a section called references that gives the full details of works referred to in the text of the dissertation. ...