The paper explores the challenges of supervising postgraduate students in open distance learning in higher education. The researcher argues that inaccessibility of information and services provided by supervisors, can contribute to a low quality of students' success. The responsibility of institutions is to ensure that facilities provided to supervisors are always appropriate in order to supervise students in distance education. Moore's Theory of Transactional Distance assumes that distance is a pedagogical, not geographic phenomenon. It raises questions about understandings and perceptions that might lead to communication gaps. The challenges in distance postgraduate supervision originate from the spatial and temporal distance and disconnection between the supervisor and student. It is assumed that some universities may not have adequate staff with PhDs to supervise students. However, the challenges of supervising postgraduate students are the lack of supervision skills, changing of supervisors, and the mode of supervision employed. [For the complete Volume 19 proceedings, see ED613922.]