The process of applying for candidacy is to develop a proposal for your research program (to be endorsed by your supervisor) and submit it to the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Once your proposal is approved, your candidacy for the research degree is confirmed.

What's your issue? What are the institutions?

does ts have a supervisor yet, or is looking for one?

Which university are you in?

Everyone as in all students + lecturers or all lecturers only?

Why cannot mention the uni? 

Anyway, for UM, you would need to do a seminar presentation within the first two semester (or fourth for PhD), which is basically a proposal defense. You will need to prepare a short report containing literature reviews, methodology, up-to-date results and submit to the office. The officer would then circulate internal e-mail to everyone in the university to invite them to attend the presentation. The e-mail would only contain the candidate's name, student ID, topic of research, and (sometimes) a short description or abstract.

I think this what someone from your faculty meant.

Are you worried that everyone else would be reading your proposal and your framework? 

Who is "someone" is that "someone"? A person in authority?
It isn't something you can decide alone. Just discuss with your supervisor and follow the "correct" instructions.

Yes, you would need to submit the full proposal to the office. In fact, you may need to submit 3-4 hard copies of the report. I doubt you would need to distribute your full research proposal to everyone.

As mentioned by fellow Critical_Fallacy, talk to your faculty's office and get the correct information. After all, you would still need to follow the instructions if you wish to graduate right? 

Cheers!

PS: Do keep us posted after you have talked to them!

submit proposal -> present to panel interviewer -> passed/ not -> panel determined the main subject according to expertise.

And NO, my proposal didn't get to circulate around. 

I could never understand why some institutions brandish around candidates' proposals like this. I wouldn't like my proposal flying around like that. Glad that you finally only needed to submit the abstract.

At least your uni is managed well enough to have policies on this sort of thing. You are resourceful enough to search for it, and gutsy enough to stick to your guns.

Good to hear that! 

Who's the someone? Not your supervisor, I hope.

And I'm really curious which uni is this! Mind sharing? Perhaps through PM?  hehe

Terminating your supervisor? Hahaha. Anyway, glad everything turns up good for you in the end! Good luck in your presentation!

(You're good at keeping things ambiguous. Wouldn't even want to disclose the gender of your supervisor. Not bad not bad    )