Supervision of Higher Degree Students — Problem Areas and Possible Solutions

Moses, Ingrid

doi:10.1080/0729436840030204

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“…This implies that international students who originated from countries where students have less freedom and depend more on supervisors may encounter cultural shock in Sweden. Similar findings have been reported in other studies, for example in the review of literature from Australia, New Zealand and Britain Moses (1984) found that interpersonal differences, work style and organizational factors impact negatively on supervisor-student relationship. Although most Swedish universities often translate some information to English there is a need for more facilities that increase access to information to English speakers.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Challenges in Postgraduate Studies: Assessments by Doctoral Students in a Swedish University

Ezebilo¹

2012

HES

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The success of research students largely depends on their relationship with supervisors. If the students encounter lot of problems it may impinge on their academic potentials. This study examines the challenges facing doctoral students and how they have coped over time. How supervisor-student relationship could be improved is discussed. The data originated from personal interviews that involved doctoral students at one of the universities in southern Sweden and were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The challenges faced by international doctoral students include less access to sources of information and cultural shock. It was inadequate guidance and mentoring for the indigenous students. For the female respondents it was challenges associated with confidence in presenting research works to the scientific community and confidence regarding having what it takes to complete doctoral studies. It was inadequate guidance for the male. The coping strategies used by the respondents include seeking for help from colleagues and asking for more support from supervisors as well as learning the Swedish language. The findings will contribute to the knowledge regarding how to improve supervisor-student relationship to help increase successes in doctoral education.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Challenges in Postgraduate Studies: Assessments by Doctoral Students in a Swedish University

Ezebilo¹

2012

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“…Some participants found their supervisors knowledgeable in research, giving them valuable comments on their work, a view shared by Moses (1994) and Spear (2000) who are of the view that supervisors must be competent in the area of research. Where the supervisor feels incompetent or unfamiliar with the area of research, there is need for a co-supervisor.…”

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M.Ed Graduates’ Perceptions of Thesis Supervision, Writing and Defence

Mushoriwa

Nyakutse²

2014

MJSS

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“…Both of them should play their role effectively and maintain a good relationship during the period of the programme [10,[19][20][21][22][23] . The relationship can be seen as a personal and professional relationship between the two [1,4,18,[24][25] .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The most frequently cited reasons are problems with supervision [5,7,22,28,[45][46][47] . According to Russell [48] , the examination of supervision has the potential to make an important contribution to the quality of postgraduate research.…”

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Effective Meeting in Graduate Research Student Supervision

Abiddin¹,

West²

2007

J. of Social Sciences

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Abstract:Meeting with supervisor is part of the practices for any graduate research students. However, was the meeting effectively conducted? Did the meeting really helped the student to progress in their research and did the supervisor given proper guidance and advices to the student during the meeting? This article focuses on the practices on supervision especially the effective methods of conducting meeting from twelve Ph.D students studied at Manchester, United Kingdom of three major disciplines of study namely Arts, Science and Social Sciences. It reviewed the major findings of the research through in-depth interviews. The results had shown that in order to progress well in their research, they must no doubt be involved in more regular meetings or discussions process and to go through certain levels before, during and after each meeting. Those levels are very important to be implemented in order to ensure that the meetings with the supervisor have great implication to the research students. Lecturers, students and especially the foreign students should practice it in order to optimise the effectiveness of the meeting and relationship between student and supervisor.

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Supervision of Higher Degree Students — Problem Areas and Possible Solutions

Cited by 64 publications

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Challenges in Postgraduate Studies: Assessments by Doctoral Students in a Swedish University

Challenges in Postgraduate Studies: Assessments by Doctoral Students in a Swedish University

M.Ed Graduates’ Perceptions of Thesis Supervision, Writing and Defence

Effective Meeting in Graduate Research Student Supervision

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