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Academic Advising System

Academic Advising (AA) System at the University aims at providing guidance to students not only on academic matters but also on other areas of all-round development.

Academic Advising plays an important role in the academic success and progression of students and is a process in which students are provided with support for identifying their academic, and career goals, devising plans to achieve these goals, and evaluating their own progress.

Under the AA System, whenever students feel in need, Academic Advisors will provide assistance in developing study plans, identifying career goals as well as referring them to appropriate supporting units.

Every postgraduate student is to be assigned to an Academic Advisor, who can be:

the thesis supervisor in the case of Research Postgraduate (RPg) and Doctor of Education (EdD) students who are in the thesis stage, and the Programme Director / Programme Leader / Area Coordinator in the case of taught postgraduate students.

Contact information of the academic advisors is available to postgraduate students in the Handbook on Academic Advising for Postgraduate Students.

Affiliation of Research Centre

Each RPg student will be assigned to a University-/Faculty-level Research Centre, Facultylevel Professional Development Centre or Resource Centre according to their research areas. The principal supervisor of the student will propose the centre affiliation arrangement. By affiliating all these students to the research clusters of the University, the research capacity of individual students as well as the University could be built and enhanced as a whole.

For more information on the Research Centres: https://www.eduhk.hk/en/research/research-centres 

Guidelines on Doctoral Students Teaching (For PhD)

Financial Support for Research and Conference (For RPg)

Research Support

To encourage and support research activities of RPg students, we offer research support funding for PhD and MPhil students. Students who have passed the Qualifying Presentation and confirmed their candidature are eligible to apply.

Conference, Workshop or Immersion Visit Support

The University encourages RPg students to present their work internationally and to exchange information with others in their research areas. Financial support would be provided to RPg students to attend international / national / local conferences or workshops as well as to have immersion visits to international / national / local research centres / departments / universities which are relevant to their research areas and directly related to their thesis.