Overview: Student Supervision

Introduction

The Student supervision sub-category is an important section where a comprehensive list of all your student supervision may be listed. Listings are displayed by institution, surname, year awarded and degree. There is no restriction on the total number of entries you may add.

About the Student Number field and Supervisor field

The facility to Search for a UCT student exists for completion of the Student Number field.
This works for students currently enrolled at UCT only.
Once the student number has been entered in this field, and after clicking Search to find and select a UCT student, the information relating to this student will pre-populate the Title, Surname, Initials, Race, Gender, Citizenship, ID/Passport Number fields.

When making a selection in the Supervisor field, the Primary supervisor is interpreted as Co-supervisor within the NRF system context.

Editing and deleting entries

Existing entries may be edited / updated subsequently, if required, or deleted.

Entries may be manually sorted into a logical order which will be used when generating CV’s and displaying on websites. It is useful to add student listings from earliest years to current years as the last record entered is always added to the bottom of the list.

Each subsequent entry on this page will be listed in a new row and will be displayed alternately in a blue / black font colour. This formatting is only used within the Researcher Profile context and purely for ease of visual display of multiple entries.

Student Supervision procedures

Working with fields in this sub-category

Field types/fields	Description/field rules
Compulsory fields	All fields which are UCT compulsory fields are noted by * All fields which are NRF compulsory fields are noted by * If synchronisation with the NRF is required, completion of the National Research Foundation (NRF) fields is mandatory. For more information, see: NRF funding overview (external link). Note: Not all academics/researchers require synchronisation with the NRF
Free text fields	Title free text fields are restricted to 100 characters. The NRF Summary text is restricted to 5500 characters. Other free text fields are restricted to 500 characters and have no limit on type of character input.
Extendable select fields	The Institution field is an extendable select type field. After entering three characters into these fields, a drop-down list of similarly named institutions appears. As more characters are entered, the drop-down list will be further refined. Select your institution from the drop-down list, if it appears, or continue entering the name your institution. Institutions which do not appear on the drop-down list will be added to the list once they have been vetted.
Drop-down list fields	Drop-down list fields contain a list of pre-defined options Click on the fields drop-down arrow to view the drop-down list Select an item from the drop-down list The selected item appears in the field
Radio button	Radio buttons are round selection buttons. One of the radio buttons will be selected by default. Only one radio button may be selected at any one time. When one is selected, all others are automatically deselected.