The main measure that a director must take to ensure he/her makes a quality supervision lies in the prevention, primarily in the following fields:

• Ensure a minimum of supervision, in the same way credits are allocated for teaching in degrees or masters. degree, it should also be on the Educational Organization Plan.
• Reduce the maximum number of students by director.
• Implementing training courses for directors, which compliance is mandatory.
• Ensure that there are regular meetings to exchange views among the thesis supervisors.
• Make joint decisions on the suitability of the continuity of the candidate.
• Meditating on the suitability of doctoral candidates in regard to their abilities, their thesis topic, his experience as researchers and affinity of the director to the issues proposed.
   

As regards the monitoring of the candidate the director must consider individual situations monitoring, the setting of suggestion boxes for serious complaints and the analysis by regular assessments of the strengths and the weaknesses in the program itself Ph.D. in regard to the selection, preparation and supervision of students.