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Q: is it possible to work and study for your PhD?
I will be working as a language teacher next year on a Z visa, and plan to study for a PhD. Would that be possible? Can Z visa holders study while working? Thank you!
10 years 22 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
of course.
who is going to stop you doing what you want in YOUR free time, once your work obligations are fulfilled ??
The free-time police ??
Do you intend to study at a Chinese university? Because you cannot work on X visas, although no one is going to stop you from running a private tutoring business or amy other indie gig you may like.
If you mean a non-Chinese graduate degree, I am currently taking distance courses and teaching. I can't say I sleep a lot, but it does help me dodge the impoverished grad student bullet.