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High-Quality Phd Supervision

Creating Structure or Supplying Support?

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Internationally, the importance attached to the PhD has grown over the last couple of decades. This heightened attention has not only been about the traditional role of the PhD, namely to provide a future supply of academics but is also about the role that higher education is perceived to play in the knowledge economy, specifically concerning high-level skills (Cloete, Sheppard, Bailey, & MacGregor, 2015).

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  1. Institutional Research and Planning Unit, Division for Institutional Planning, Evaluation and Monitoring, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Cornelius M. Fourie

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    Rosalind M. O. Pritchard

  2. Danube University Krems, Austria

    Attila Pausits

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    James Williams

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Fourie, C.M. (2016). High-Quality Phd Supervision. In: Pritchard, R.M.O., Pausits, A., Williams, J. (eds) Positioning Higher Education Institutions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-660-6_9

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