Articles
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DHET Accredited Journals and Research Output Units: The 2026 Figures
South African universities earned 23 777,63 publication subsidy units for the 2023 publication year, 82,6% of them from journal articles. What the Research Outputs Policy actually counts, how…
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NRF Postgraduate Funding in Numbers: What It Pays and Who Gets It (2026)
The NRF funded 5 936 postgraduate students in 2024/25 — down from 6 697 two years earlier. The exact scholarship values for 2027, the split by degree level,…
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NVivo vs ATLAS.ti vs MAXQDA vs Taguette for South African Postgraduates (2026)
Your university has almost certainly already chosen for you — and South African institutions split cleanly into NVivo campuses and ATLAS.ti campuses. What UCT, Wits, Stellenbosch, Unisa and…
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Chapter 4 Is Just SPSS Output: How to Turn It Into a Results Chapter (2026)
Forty pages of pasted output is not a results chapter. How to choose which tables survive, rebuild them to standard, report each test correctly in running text, and…
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Your Examiners Want Major Revisions: What to Do in the First Week (South Africa, 2026)
Major revisions is a conditional pass, not a failure — and almost everything that goes wrong goes wrong in week one. A day-by-day plan for sorting examiner reports,…
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How to Do Thematic Analysis for a South African Dissertation, Step by Step (2026)
The six phases of thematic analysis worked through for a South African master’s dissertation — transcription conventions, coding, building themes that are not just topic summaries, and the…
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SPSS vs R vs Jamovi vs JASP for a South African Dissertation (2026)
Before you pay for anything, check what your university already licenses — UCT, Wits, Stellenbosch, Unisa and UP all provide statistical software to postgraduates on very different terms.…
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Dissertation Editing and Proofreading in South Africa: What It Costs in 2026 — and What You’re Allowed to Buy
South African editors averaged R0.27 to R0.36 a word for a thesis edit in 2025 — about R6 750 to R9 000 for a 25 000-word dissertation. Full…
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How to Submit Your Dissertation for Examination in South Africa, Step by Step (2026)
Submission is about ten institutional gates, not one act, and it starts two to three months before you hand anything in. The full sequence with the output required…
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How Many Sources Should a Master’s Dissertation Cite? We Counted 25 South African Ones (2026)
No South African university prescribes a number of sources. We counted the reference lists of 25 South African master’s dissertations: the median held 75 sources, with half between…