Abstract
Postgraduate education is critical for the training of the next generation of researchers, as outlined by Cloete, Mouton and Sheppard (2015) and Manyike (2017). Several concerns have been raised nationally and within higher education institutions about the state of postgraduate training in South Africa with the quality of graduates, throughput rates, supervision capacity, the preparedness of students to undertake postgraduate degrees, state of research infrastructure, etc. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2018; Cloete et al., 2015; National Planning Commission [NPC], 2013). Research is vital to inform evidence-based practices and responses.
The Covid-19 pandemic has, in several ways, further exposed
