The NIHSS has established an innovative Doctoral Schools Programme involving the joint collaborative effort of South Africa's tertiary institutions. These cross institutional collaborations are designed to significantly increase the number of South African PhD academics in the Humanities and Social Sciences, create new communities of scholarship, and enhance the creative and technical capacities of this new generation of scholars. Doctoral Schools are understood as a form of institutionalised provincial collaboration across co-located higher education institutions in South Africa, which principally bring doctoral candidates together to engage in cross-institutional and interdisciplinary conversations. To bring these virtual schools to life, the NIHSS has created the following implementation platforms: the National Mentorship Programme and the Virtual School App. The ambitious National Mentorship Programme, aims to provide high quality academic mentoring to all NIHSS doctoral students. Mentors are broadly tasked with co-ordinating Doctoral Schools and providing mentorship and are also key in facilitating the development of relevant research skills. Mentor contributions play a significant role in providing enhanced doctoral support within an increasingly strained postgraduate system.
Doctoral Schools: | Project Leader(s) Identified |
Western Cape School |
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Eastern Cape School |
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Kwazulu-Natal School |
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Gauteng School |
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Free State School and University of South Africa School |
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Northern Corridor School |
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