postgraduate
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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 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 Academics Are There to Supervise You? South Africa’s University Staff in 2024
South Africa’s 26 public universities employed 20 887 permanent instruction and research staff in 2024, against 1 115 580 enrolled students and 90 010 master’s and doctoral candidates.…
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Your Supervisor Is Not Returning Your Chapter: What to Do, in Order (South Africa, 2026)
A chapter sent six weeks ago and still no reply. The escalation ladder that works at South African universities, the national standard that says a written supervision policy…