啟新書院推出全新提名權計劃

happy.rita

My child is just 1yr old, really can't imagine how terrible the situation will be after 3 yrs

Radiomama

DC adopted the similar plan since last year!

P-boy

My kid is on the wait list for year 1 in 2012. I have enquired and been told that the wait list is very long.  Though my kid also wants to get into school, I was a bit angry when I was told I had a chance to jump the queue by giving them $400,000.  Only jump the queue for waiting as no vacancies at present.  This sounds like the old days in Hong Kong where there was no ICAC.  If you want a fast track, $ to the authority.  What is the moral value? How can a school solicit money like this?  If you want a stable finance, you can ask every new student to buy debentures, non-refundable annual levy, etc.  But it is not a good idea to re-prioritize those on the wait list with $400,000 or short list the interviewee in future.

poonseelai

Fatrara 發表於 12-6-22 13:19
Given that ESF accepts foreigners into their schools,  does this apply to Mainland Chinese??  Or onl ...

Hum, RC is a private school. As far as I know, Debenture arrangement does not require EB approval, and presumably  these non-school fee type of charges are not regulated by EB. it is so sad that education will become a consumer driven market.

Littleho

$400,000 is equivalent to total tuition fees of the entire primary school (P1-6) of my son's school

PiyoC

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Agree you no more. It's totally unacceptable!! The Gov't should step in and control the possible chain effect.

Foresee that a number of parents who cannot afford this 400k would rush to other IS. This would simultaneously make the competition even more severe and resulting in the same build up of $$ bar finally.

I have decided to give up RC and consider to come back to LS. 向現實低頭.

P-boy

PiyoC 發表於 12-6-22 17:36
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Agree you no more. It's totally unacceptable!! The Gov't should step in and con ...

Other IS are also much more expensive.

bobbycheung

Let's see how much they are talking about.  Taking Year 1 as an example. they normally receive $13.56M Tuition Fee a year (= 168 students x $80,700).  The 60 Nomination Right students will bring in an extra of $24M (= 60 students x $400,000).  It's almost twice the annual Tuition Fee and the school gets this extra money every year.  No way RC is going to give up this 肥豬肉.   In fact, they might be thinking how they could raise this maximum yearly intake of 60 without people noticing or objecting to it.  

kcvtsai

Wow, I know RC doesn't get any subsidies from the government, but didn't know they are so desperate for money... With the introduction of the building fee + now, this 400K... this is a bit tooooooo much!

searcher123

This is good news to those parents with kid studying PIPs and tradition ESF schools because PIPs is no longer to rely the subsidy from sister schools and have more fund for school development.

But it is bad for those parents who want to send their kid to ESF schools especially kid currently in ESF kindergarten

searcher123

that is I am refering to

simplelife

is the money refundable?

angela11

I was very shocked to learn about the nomination right thing.

May I know where the number of "60" nomination rights is from (as I can't find it from its website). Thanks.

crazy_ho

真係難以想像，一開口就要 $400,000. 唔知之後報名人數會唔會減少呢？

bobbycheung

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It was under the section entitled "Priority for admission Assessment/Interview"
http://www.renaissance.edu.hk/content/policy

The original wording was like this:-
4.  Children who are Nominees under the Nomination Rights Scheme for all year groups.  Limited to maximum 60 students in Year 1 for 2013-14 academic year.  Within this category, nominees are ranked in order of receipt of their Nomination Rights Application Form."  

I think they have deleted the sentence from the website.  Interesting to know why they did it.

DragonBall

Just wondering the immediately result after this scheme announced? I'll give up this school, there's many choices out of RC....can imagine that will affect the quality of entry student!

bobbycheung

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The likely result is that people will keep flocking in especially those whose kids are for various reason unlikely to get admitted in the first place but who could now afford to pay $400,000 and jump the queue.  

birdbird

The school has set up a very bad example for our children that money really talks. when my boy was 4, I appreciated the school's interivew arrangement, which was to screen out those kids unable to talk and understand the English language instead of picking up the smartest kids (some kids have potentials but they  don't shine when they are just 4!) My son was lucky to get a place.

Now, the school sets up a scheme to suck money from a group of rich and prospective parents who are longed for a seat for their kids. Using money to get a high place in the interivew list is unethical. I don't know why an education institution dare propose such evil stuff, telling the parents and students that money is the king of all! The ESL should be shameful of luanching this scheme. I would like to seek support from the prospective parents, though some parents may think that I'm naive, to boycott the nomination rights scheme and make the P1 application as usual. Let's maintain  a fair game for our children and show the ESLthat  what she proposes is wrong and evil.

Maoku

原帖由 birdbird 於 12-06-23 發表
本帖最後由 birdbird 於 12-6-23 15:44 編輯

The school has set up a very bad example for our childr ...

Could not agree more.  Stay fool and naive may not be a bad thing when striving for social justice. ESF should reconsider the whole thing. They are not running tutorial school, they should have a noble thinking behind as they are providing education. Parents are entrusting them in taking care of their most precious children. Education thou can be privately funded but it should not be twisted to just becoming a pure  business.   The school administration should be accountable for this malpractice.