New Approach to Applied Research

Effective this semester (July 2009), our part-time master students will have an option of taking an applied research course. The applied research course will be a guided one. A lecturer is assigned to guide the students throughout the 10-week duration. There will be at least four related presentations before the students are allowed to submit their report. The four presentations focus on (i) Identification of research issue (ii) Variable(s) identification and methodology (iii) Data analysis of research findings and (iv) Report writing. We hope to reduce the number of non-completion amongst the master students.