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原帖由 gingerale 於 09-10-29 18:24 發表 
Very sensible sharing, Kunggi201.
Besides the school fee, IB was another concern for us when we were considering CKY. It seems like IB students mostly will end up studying in universities overseas - ...
Quite busy today.
I better use English coz I can type much faster.
My views could be offensive, and I must emphasize that it is based on my personal experience.
I have been hesitating to share my views because it may create discomforts of many people.
Apology for this.
Over the years I met with some 300 universities students due to my company’s projects with the Federation of Youths (青協).
And, my company assigns me one or two internship students every summer.
I graduated from a second-class university (二流大學) in US, and regrettably, I don’t feel the same quality from the majority of Hong Kong universities students as I could get from my foreign classmates – in terms of vision, language abilities, creativity and leadership.
A few of them, maybe 10% were top HK students, who were great indeed, but mostly graduated from “very top local schools”, international schools or overseas high schools, exchange students from the Mainland (speaking good English too!) and other countries.
I sometimes visit China and meet Mainland officials, and found that they are picking up fast, and even speaking better English than we do (especially those young officials in Beijing and Shanghai).
I can recall that I visited a Guangzhou company some years ago, during which the CEO introduced some of his Chinese colleagues to me and my accompanying HK students.
Some of his Chinese staff could speak German, or French or other languages.
The CEO passed a message – why should he employ HK graduates, whilst Mainland students are much cheaper, with higher quality?
Such messages are repeatedly told by my other clients and business partners.
Even in my company, we started hiring young mainland executives 10 years ago.
Hong Kong people have been proud of our international vision/eyesight
國際視野and language ability, but it seems that we are losing our strengths and competitiveness.
Many people are still day-dreaming of being superiority, but I can tell you that we are actually looked down by foreigners, and even by mainland Chinese.
What’s wrong with our kids and our education system?
My job nature requires me to work with many HKSAR officials, so I trust I understand their ways of thinking.
What they are looking for is “measurable achievement” (number), no matter in the areas of trade and business development, environmental protection, education, and etc.
This implies, for examples, the Education Bureau – they are concerned of the “percentage” of young people entering tertiary education rather than the quality of these students, the “passing rate” of public exams to prove the success of the ever-changing policies.
The recent Policy Address has identified education as one of the six industries with high potential.
Could you see “how”? Do you believe so?
Where the senior education officials put their kid for high education? local or overseas universities?
As 15分mentioned, I am a believer of “Things of one kind come together” (物以類聚).
With such quality of university students, could Hong Kong be the education hub?
I trust our local universities are well aware of this issue, otherwise they could have lost reputation in the nearly future.
If things are going to change, there is a need to revamp the whole education system in a longer term, so that our universities will not be filled with “stuff ducks.”
Not only the universities, but also schools like DXX, CKY, TSL and many other “new concept” schools have differentiated themselves with the traditional teaching mode (again, different kids fit to different schools).
The other shortcut is to increase the diversity of university students, and as kkpapa mentioned, there is a growing trend of accepting IB students to local universities.
Of course I would rather let my kid stay home and save money, but if things are not going to change and if my financial situation allows, I would use every penny to send him abroad.
Well, let’s see~~ |
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發表於 09-10-29 17:49
