Universities have a mandate to promote teaching and learning, research,
internationalisation, and community engagement as part of its basic architecture. Recently …

South African universities receive a direct monetary reward for the number of doctoral
graduates produced. As a result there has been a steady increase in numbers in recent …

The traditional apprenticeship model of supervision in which the single scholar charts her
individual research path is giving way to more collaborative learning environments. Doctoral …

Supervisory practices are fundamental to the production of research in higher education, but
these practices are undertheorized and poorly understood. Academia needs to understand …

This article addresses the challenges encountered by doctoral supervisors as they interact
with their doctoral students in the contexts of South African universities. In a qualitative study …

ABSTRACT Given South Africa's colonial and apartheid past, postgraduate supervisors are
encouraged to explore decolonial and socially just ways of supervision. I draw on Freire's …

There is considerable research which supports the view that the student's ability to complete
a doctorate is often fraught with factors relating to the complexity of their professional …

This article presents the empirical findings of a study undertaken to compare the views of
language editors and supervisors concerning the appropriate level of editorial intervention …

In this study, supervision practices in library and information science departments in Nigeria
and South Africa were examined. The sample framework consisted of master's dissertations …

The demand for more doctoral education puts pressure on universities to increase the
number of academics with doctoral degrees who can supervise the next generation of …