Covid-19: An alternative approach to postgraduate supervision in the digital age
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Date
2022
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Stellenbosch University
Abstract
Universities globally are facing enormous governmental pressure to increase postgraduate output,
and in turn, contribute to the knowledge economy. This pressure is transferred to research
supervisors, who have to navigate the complexities of research supervision to not only meet
postgraduate output targets set by the university in particular, but postgraduate output targets set
by government in general. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, research supervision mostly followed
the traditional apprenticeship or group model approach to supervision, where engagement took
the form of face-to-face interactions. With the COVID-19 pandemic came social distancing, which
forced research supervision to move to online platforms. The core objective of this article was to
peruse selected research supervision models or approaches to determine which model or
approach would be most suited to an online supervision context, if any. This article advances a
re-imagined view of research supervision in higher education.
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Online supervision, Digital age, Higher education, Public health, Covid-19
Citation
Hendrickse, R. (2022). Covid-19: An alternative approach to postgraduate supervision in the digital age. South African Journal of Higher Education, 36(5), 98‒118. https://dx.doi.org/10.20853/36-5-4554