Analysis of Doctoral Supervision.

Abstract

Sustainable development goal four is to ensure quality education by 2030. One target of achieving this is by 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small Island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education. There has been an increased enrolment in doctoral studies at African Universities in the recent years. Government industry and business are interested in high quality graduates. The study aimed to contribute to the quality of doctoral graduates by assessing their perception of supervision. Perception of supervision was obtained using the Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire (PREQ). The study recommends (i) self-evaluation of supervisors. This will point out weak areas in supervision and when corrected will ensure quality of graduates, and (ii) conduct tracer studies of doctorate graduates.