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Yingchun Li, Xan Jiaotong Liverpool University, ChinaAbstract
This paper is about the construction of a multidimensional Transition Support System (TSS) for postgraduates in XJTLU. As the university keeps expanding and the PG programme is enlarging, the need to facilitate postgraduates’ transition in this Sino-British EMI University emerges. The postgraduate students may face a multitude of challenges before and after they join XJTLU. Thus, it is of necessity and urgency to build up a system to aid postgraduates in their transition to XJTLU. This system is embodied in a PG Transition Module and is currently at its piloting stage. This project will implement action research in the iterative process of constructing and modifying the TSS, while investigating the effect of the TSS on postgraduates’ development of self-directed research-led learning skills. This project is highly significant as it will increase the prospect of a successful XJTLU life for postgraduates, and enhance the profile of XJTLU in the international arena as a pioneer in offering an extensive support system for postgraduate transition. After the first iteration of this PG Transition Module, there is feedback from multiple stakeholders including students, practice mentors and academic advisors, with their varied perceptions and experiences of the project-based learning in one semester. Postgraduate students mostly described how learning in authentic real world projects have helped their development of self-directed and self-regulated learning skills although they have also raised their expectations for the relevancy of these projects to their disciplinary areas for the enhancement of employability.
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Conference: ACE2025Stream: Higher education
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Li Y. (2026) Towards a Successful Postgraduate Life and Beyond: The Construction of a PG Transition Module ISSN: 2186-5892 – The Asian Conference on Education 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 623-630) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2026.48
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2026.48
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