Postgraduate Supervision at Kenya’s Public Universities: The Tough Reality

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  • Josephine Karuri Moi University, Kenya

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53103/cjess.v3i3.151

Keywords:

Postgraduate Supervision, Kenya Public Universities, Supervision Challenges, Research Capacity and Quality

Abstract

This paper uses the auto-ethnographic approach to explore, analyze and reflect on the core issues that impact most on the effectiveness of supervision at public universities in Kenya.  It draws on the authors own experiences at supervising and being supervised at public universities in Kenya over the past decade, as well as on observation and narrated experiences of colleagues and students at these same institutions.   These shared experiences are reviewed against documented literature on the subject of postgraduate supervision to identify the points of convergence, and to subsequently derive practical recommendations on measures that would lead to more effective postgraduate supervision in the country.  A key finding was the fact that the challenges and issues facing postgraduate supervision at Kenya’s public universities resonate very closely with the documented experiences of postgraduate supervision in other higher education institution, particularly in the African country settings.  It follows that the suggested mitigation factors are in fact applicable to many of the other public universities in sub–Saharan Africa.

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2023-05-02

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Karuri, J. (2023). Postgraduate Supervision at Kenya’s Public Universities: The Tough Reality. Canadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies, 3(3), 86–98. https://doi.org/10.53103/cjess.v3i3.151

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