Academic support

Taught postgraduates benefi t from a range of useful services to support your study.

Academic skills development

As a postgraduate student, your closest contacts are likely to be your departmental advisors and supervisors. Additional support is available from the Centre for the Development of Academic Skills (CeDAS), a dedicated service to ensure your academic success. Our friendly Learning Developers off er a range of useful services with you in mind: • tailored sessions embedded within your academic modules to help you tackle the challenges, e.g. researching for and writing a dissertation • bookable 1:1 advice on writing within your discipline, and on maths, stats and numeracy • workshops, courses and self-study resources on key academic and language skills. English language preparation

If English isn’t your fi rst language and you are looking to boost your language skills prior to studying your Masters with us, we have programmes to help you adjust to studying in an unfamiliar academic setting. Our Pre-sessional English Language Programme will improve your academic English and help you gain a better understanding of the key skills you need to successfully study at Royal Holloway. For more information, please visit royalholloway.ac.uk/pelp Alternatively, our Pre-Masters Programmes, which are delivered by our partner Study Group, help you prepare for your chosen Masters course by covering relevant subject knowledge in addition to improving your language and academic skills. For more information, please visit rhulisc.com

“As an international student, academic English was the fi rst diffi culty I had. CeDAS helped me build on my foundation and off ered me opportunities to improve. At the beginning of the fi rst term, I attended a variety of workshops, including how to structure essays, how to reference, and presentation courses. When I started my degree assignments, I booked the one-to-one tutorial to help brainstorm and format the argument. CeDAS is really benefi cial to students whether local or international.”

Chen-Ju MA Marketing