SYA Project

Comprehensively concluding the evaluation and comments from the past participants of the Peer Mentoring Programme (PMP), the curricular and co-curricular effectively improved freshmen’s adaptability. The academic advice from mentor also helped freshmen to tackle study challenges. The SYA project....

The semester-end period should had brought students stressful weeks as your time was fully occupied by assignments and examinations. Therefore, the SYA project invited professional instructors of Singing Bowl and Animal Flow to organize workshops helping SYA students to relieve stress after the e....

Even though international mobility is restricted due to the global pandemic, the SYA Project initiates a new international collaboration titled “Internationalization-at-home” (IaH) Project. It gave Senior Year Admitted students to connect with overseas students through an instant mobile messaging....

SYA Project launched a research project studying the effectiveness of the artistic experience of Pastel Nagomi Art and Zentangle on stress management to university students. 33 students were recruited for this project titled “Senior Year Admitted Students - Artistic Experience Activities”.

The SYA Project Credit Transfer Webinar Series comprises six webinars from April to June 2021 encompassing topics on credit transfer to cultivate a platform for both prominent overseas and local speakers to share their experience in a virtual environment.

The six-session webinar ....

To facilitate the Senior Year Admitted (SYA) freshmen’ adaptation into the first year of university study, the SYA Project specially designed a semester-long Peer Mentoring Programme (PMP) to support their needs with the guidance of experienced peers.

This programme recruited eight mentor....

On 27 November, PolyU collaborated with Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) and Federation for Self-financing Tertiary Education (FSTE) to organise an online conference themed “Credit Transfer Practices in Higher Education: Partnership for Succe....

Congratulations to PolyU SYA Freshmen!

In view of the recent pandemic situation, the SYA Project switched the orientation activity especially for the Senior Year Admitted (SYA) freshmen of The Hong Polytechnic University to online mode. Eight Sessions of online orientation activity held f....

The Senior Year Admission (SYA) Project Team and The Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) co-delivered a poster presentation about Hong Kong transfer students at the 18th annual National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) confer....

Congratulations! Welcome to PolyU - the place for your new chapter!

The SYA Project continues to organize orientation activity particularly for the Senior Year Admitted (SYA) freshmen of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University this year as in the past two years. Ten sessions of orientation a....

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The Senior Year Admission (SYA) Project invited Mr. Santiago Bernal, the Assistant Director of Center for Community College Partnerships (CCCP) of the University of California, Los Angeles, to co-organize a workshop titled “From Sub-Degree to University: Facilitating students’ academic progressio....

The Senior Year Admission (SYA) Project Team Members attended and presented at the Lilly-Asia Conference on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning which was held at the Hong Kong Baptist University from 16 to 18 May 2019. Oral and poster presentations about the situations of local SYA students and ....

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) held an agreement signing ceremony yesterday to further their collaboration in areas of space science and technology, marine science and technology, tourism management research as well as innovation and entrepreneurshi....

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has launched the Knowledge Transfer Forum (the Forum) to provide a platform for matching the expertise and research outputs of eminent business scholars with global companies.

Knowledge transfer has long been a strong DNA strand of PolyU that s....

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) today announced that starting from the academic year 2019/20, the University will adopt a flexible treatment towards the minimum score requirement for admission via the Joint University Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS). The entrance requirement for....