Understanding demands and pressures of PhD production

By Karen MacGregor. There is a real danger that by focusing on national and institutional policies and strategies to expand PhD production, a truism will be lost: “It is that supervisors graduate PhD students,” says Professor Johann Mouton of the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. In South Africa’s efforts to triple the number of doctoral graduates from around 1,500 a year, not enough attention is being given to the role of supervisors. More...