Vol 1 - Support Services Ufs Ac Za - University of the Free State

students; post graduate topics; super visors, studylead ers and promoters; and capacity de vel opmentactivities. This will provide a useful tool formonitoring students’ learning experiences andprogress, completion rates, research outputs, andeven post-study experience.Although postgraduate students will be themain clientele and target audience of the PostgraduateStu dent Support Office, it will also serveas a resource for academic staff members who areless experienced in research supervision and UFSsupervision policies. The Office will provide a trainingbase and information hub for these staffmembers in particular, but also for the larger corpsof UFS postgraduate study leaders and promoters,by developing and consolidating ap pro pria te documentationto support their activities. Such documentsinclude, for example, a supervisors’ checklistand an institutional policy document entitledMutual Re spon si bili ties of a Supervisor and Postgraduate Stu dent which is currently beingfinalised.The anticipated goals, objectives and activi tiesof the Postgraduate Student Support Office arecurrently being informed and vali dat ed by aUniversity-wide study of the UFS postgraduate environment. It is envisaged that the role, re spon si bilitiesand structure of the Office will thus be clarifiedand the Office should commence full operations bythe end of 2008.62