Abstract:
Supervisor-student relationship is crucial for completion of an undergraduate
programme since students, as a requirement to complete, are expected to write a
project work. The purpose of this study was to find economics students’ views about
their supervisors. Using a cross-sectional descriptive design, 148 economics major
trainee teachers from two faculties in a public university were randomly selected. The
study showed that students had opinions that supervisors are guides who must show
interest in students’ research. Again, students’ opinion was that they did not have
adequate guidance and mentoring from supervisors and this contributed to their
negative perceptions relative to their relationship with supervisors. Also, gender was
found to have an association with students’ perception about relationship with
supervisors. The study advocated for measures to be put in place to mitigate the
negative effects of student-supervisor rift which has detrimental effects on student
completion rates among students in Ghana.
