This course provides opportunities for students to express their major concern in education, and to explore specific educational issues by means of self-regulated learning and transfer of knowledge. Upon submission of a project outline, each student is assigned to a Project Supervisor with whom he/she is entitled to three 30-minute consultation sessions. Through interactions with the Supervisor, the student attains basic guidance to conduct an independent project.

By the end of the semester, students are required to submit a final project report of about 8,000–10,000 words in English or 10,000–13,000 characters in Chinese. For facilitation, they are given a set of instruction guidelines on the preparation of the project report. The independent project should be well-planned, systematically conducted, and clearly reported to reflect the student’s analytical, critical and creative thinking in the exploration of educational issues relevant to the theme of the MEd programme but currently not offered in the existing courses.