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Related Guidelines on PGS Recipients as Teaching Assistants

Duty Hours of PGS Recipients

The maximum tutorial hours (i.e. class contact hours) is 5 hours per week for a full studentship recipient. The maximum duty hours is 12 hours per week which includes research and teaching assistance duties (tutorials, class preparation, marking, etc.). From 2012-13, for a PGS recipient who is in his/her final year of studies, the maximum tutorial hours is 2.5 hours per week while the maximum duty hours is 6 hours per week.

Mandatory Attendance of Lectures by Teaching Assistants

For the purpose of strengthening the training for Teaching Assistants (TAs), from 2009-10, it is made mandatory for TAs who have to lead tutorials to attend all the lectures of the relevant courses, except that exemption is granted. The academic staff teaching the course shall fill in the form "Granting Exemption from Attending Lectures by Teaching Assistants", providing justifications for the exemption and the form shall be endorsed by the Head of Department concerned. The duly completed form shall be sent to the Registry for record purpose.

For RPg students acting as TAs, the time for sit-in lectures shall be counted within the 12 hours of duties for the postgraduate studentship award but not counted in the maximum 5 hours of class contacts.

The policy shall apply to all TAs, not limited to RPg students.

-- Granting Exemption from Attending Lectures by Teaching Assistants