Strategies to Overcome Challenges in Academic Supervision

Scholarly literature describes academic supervision as a relational-based task involving a student and supervisors. It is not controlled cooperation with a technical formula for it to function, but relational and requires interpersonal skills. Such collaboration in supervision resembles other human relations where partners may encounter diverse challenges.

However, for supervision partners (students and supervisors) to cooperate effectively, they must communicate and comprehend each other's needs and expectations. After that, they should create shared expectations based on institutional and community contextual needs and resources. Finally, learning strategies should focus on how to meet the agreed objectives within the allocated time.

The book guides higher education stakeholders in communicating their needs and strategizing to fulfill them effectively. In addition, it highlights the challenges most students and supervisors encounter in supervision and how to tackle them. Knowing what may happen and the hindrances in higher education learning can help students and advisors prepare to prevent the worse. It is time to communicate that postsecondary education is a confusing structure and practice to reduce and eliminate student attrition problems.

Scholarly literature has informed different reasons for higher education student attrition. However, major problems often occur in the supervision process when students and supervisors fail to cooperate. Therefore, let us learn the supervision challenges and how to overcome them. By reading this book, you demonstrate your concern about student attrition, and you can do something about it, SPEAD THE INFORMATION.