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The notion of assignment deadline

About assignment submission deadline in project management term: You tell students that deadline means the "latest finished date" (allowed) but students treat that as the "latest start date", and they keep testing your tolerance limit..

Dissertation coaching - main tasks involved

Dissertation coaching involves: 1. Learn the student's main research interest, preliminary dissertation theme,career profile and existing dissertation project constraints. 2. Brainstorm with the student to come up with a dissertation project proposal that has sufficient practical and academic values. 3. Provide personalized tutorials, notably on relevant academic theories and research methods notions, resource support and feedback from time to time to empower the student to do his/her dissertation project. 4. Review and proof-read the student's draft on proposal and dissertation report from time to time before the dissertation report is to be formally submitted to the University. The dissertation report is essentially the work of the student; the evaluation viewpoints, analysis of findings and line of reasoning based on theories are essentially that of the student. Dissertation students usually are highly competent managers in their fields but are not familiar with a