ESFPrimary or Harrow [複製鏈接]

• Mel Mrowiec (Christ Church, Oxford) from Harrow School, England
  

• Head of the Lower School and the Prep School
  Jason Taylor (University of Lancaster) formerly of Quarry Bay School, Hong Kong and Harrow International School, Bangkok
• Director of Studies
  James Thomas (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) from Wellington College, England
• Director of Pastoral Care and Boarding
  Barnaby Durrant (University College, London) from Stowe School, England
• Director of Extra-Curricular Activities
  Sarah Delaney (The University of New England, NSW, Australia) from The Cheltenham Ladies’ College, England
• Deputy Head of Lower School and Pre-Prep Phase Leader
  Cordelia Cripps (University of Liverpool, Chester) from Kennedy School, Hong Kong
  

I believe the policy remains the same asbefore: Chinese residents of the Mainland and Taiwan can only be admitted todegree programmes but not to primary or secondary schools.  See

http://www.immd.gov.hk/ehtml/id996.htm

Sorry for being discouraging but I amafraid that the notion that Harrow is a placefor networking with wealthy families from the Mainland is perhaps nothing morethan fantasy.  Those who can go to Harrow(HK) can go to any international schools in HK, such as CIS, HKIS, GSIS, etc.  Those who cannot go to other internationalschools in HK cannot go to Harrow (HK), but when reach the age for year 9, goto Harrow (UK), Eton, Westminster,...

Harrow (HK) has not been granted anyexemption.  In contrast, the restrictionthat she could not admit more than 50% local passport holders has not been imposedon any other schools.

I attended a briefing session for confirmedfamilies, and found that about half of the attendees were Caucasians whilst theother half were Asians.  Wealthy ornot?  I could not tell and nobody cared; weonly cared about the curriculum, the experience of the teaching staff and theschool life.

Whenever a person is holding a local passport, he is a local person.  Being a local person, he is eligible to apply to any schools.  If he doesn't speak Cantonese but does speak English as an alternative language, then he can enjoy a higher priority than Cantonese speaking children, when applying to ESF.  (Of course, this is just a stated policy; I am aware of the hearsay that for some ESF schools, some unlucky Category 1 applicants may not be interviewed at all.)  However, when applying to Harrow, a local person, no matter what languages he speaks, will suffer from this 50% cap. Being a child of a wealthy family or not is, I believe, irrelevant.

It would be hard for me to imagine that wealthy families living at the Peak, Repulse Bay, South Bay etc will give up GSIS, HKIS, CIS nearby and send their children to a school at Tuen Mun.

The couple I met in the car park after the briefing session drove a compact Mazda.  Well, perhaps because I, as well as those whom I had a conversation with, showed interest only in our children’s education, and so all of them seemed ordinary.  So, you met some wealthy and blue-blooded families?

Sorry, in fact I am not so sure if I understood the concerns you were trying to raise.