Coordinated process of producing master‘s theses and conducting defenses in the form of student counseling

Jernej Kapus

Summary:  The aim of the paper is to present an example of good practice at the School of Sport, Health & Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth, UK. There, all students in the final year of their master‘s degree prepare timed master‘s theses and defend them at the student conference, an event held each year in the first half of September. The students use a poster presentation to publicly defend their master‘s theses. Considering the way the Master‘s degree is currently conducted in Slovenia, we believe that a change in the direction of the described practice from abroad would have a whole range of positive effects for all involved, i.e. for the students, the university teachers, the student office and for the faculty.