{"id":6586,"date":"2019-11-15T09:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:41","slug":"digital-training-can-help-supervisors-lift-phd-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/15\/digital-training-can-help-supervisors-lift-phd-output\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Training Can Help Supervisors Lift Phd Output"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several African\ncountries have increased the number of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6017\/ijahe.v1i1.5644\">new universities<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6017\/ijahe.v1i1.5644\">increased enrolments<\/a>&nbsp;as\npart of an effort to boost tertiary education and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanminds.co.za\/dd-product\/research-universities-in-africa\/\">development<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More recently, there\nhas been an increased emphasis on doctoral degrees. Some countries have set\nambitious targets for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/education\/ihe\/knowledge-centre\/developing-talent-employability\/phd-capacities-sub-saharan-africa\">the\nnumber of doctoral degrees<\/a>. And&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/post.php?story=20111209195021937\">Nigeria<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cue.or.ke\/images\/news\/appointment_promotion_criteria_universities_2014.pdf\">Kenya<\/a>&nbsp;now\ndemand that all university lecturers have doctoral degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The push for higher doctoral output\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6017\/ijahe.v1i1.5644\">has increased<\/a>\u00a0postgraduate enrolments. But this has not necessarily translated into sufficient numbers of successful\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/sites\/default\/files\/h233_07_synthesis_report_final_web.pdf\">completions<\/a>. One of the reasons for this is the need for well-trained supervisors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across the world, policymakers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eua-cde.org\/downloads\/publications\/2016_euacde_doctoral-salzburg-implementation-new-challenges.pdf\">acknowledge<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eua.eu\/resources\/publications\/615:salzburg-ii-%E2%80%93-recommendations.html\">crucial role of supervision in postgraduate education<\/a>. An online\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www0.sun.ac.za\/crest\/\">short training programme has been developed at<\/a>\u00a0Stellenbosch University in South Africa to provide support for supervisors. The training course is specifically aimed at supervisors at African universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/digital-training-can-help-supervisors-lift-phd-output-126391\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several African countries have increased the number of&nbsp;new universities&nbsp;and&nbsp;increased enrolments&nbsp;as part of an effort to boost tertiary education and&nbsp;development. More recently, there has been an increased emphasis on doctoral degrees.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}