“…They need particular guidance on when to stop data collection and analysis, when to start drafting the thesis and how to structure it [9] . Thus, the supervisors are expected and assumed to be guides [21,26,32,39,48,50,53] and critical friends [4,54] . On the other hand, they should also be able to adopt flexible supervision strategies depending on the individual requirements, which are influenced by the attributes of the particular student [4,15,50,59] .…”