The recruitment from the mainland of the first delegation of famous Universities in Hong Kong
- "2010 hong Kong Education Expo" located on Shenzhen on 10 January
Education International Cooperation Group (EIC) and the Peal River Communications organizes “2010 Hong Kong Education Expo”located on the 7 floor of Marco Polo Hotel in Futian, Shenzhen at 2pm in 10 January 09. This Expo builds the communication platform for education institutions between Mainland and HK. Most of universities in HK formed a delegation for Education Expo which includes The University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Institute of Education and so on. This is the first time for those top universities to participate the public exhibition in mainland, which brought a series of popular courses, such as IT, Electrics, Media, Movies, MBA and so on to student. There have senior consultant provide professional advice and analytical study in HK.
According to the organizers at the EIC Shenzhen Company, this exhibition is particularly suitable for university students, fresh graduates and in-service workers.
The recruitment from the mainland of the first delegation of famous Universities in Hong Kong
In recent years, the number of mainland students who study master courses has increased year by year regarding to the organizer at the EIC Shenzhen Company. HKSAR Government Bureau of Education shows the number of mainland students study in HK has increased from 1128 students in 2000-2001 to 2781 students in 2006-2007. For example, EIC (Shenzhen and Guangzhou Office) grew nearly adouble for advice and consultation of master courses in HK. EIC Shenzhen had been successfully assisted hundreds of mainland students enrolled in master's programs in HK in 2009.
The University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong Institute of Education formed a delegation to participate prestigious exhibition. Those famous universities brought popular programs, such as Hong Kong Baptist University – Master of Arts in Communication, Media Management Master of Social Sciences and MBA courses; The University of Hong Kong – E- commerce and Internet Master of Engineering; City University of Hong Kong – Master of Supply Chain Management courses etc. There are new courses provide by Master of Social Sciences for Sustainable Tourism ,Master of transport policy and planning and the China Development Research Master's courses. If the students would like to know more information and consultation, they need to show their degree, transcripts, foreign language standards, personal expertise, and award certificates to EIC’s consulatants for evaluation of Application and free consulting Service
Low-cost, internationalization of education
Hong Kong schools as best choice of "post-graduate"
Jacky graduated from key universities in Guangdong this year and plan to study master of Marketing in HK next year. He said there are three reasons to study in HK. First, the relative cost in HK is lower than United States, British and other countries. Second, he learned a lot from friends of him who study at University in HK, and recognize the environment of campus is suitable to him. Third, HK is located near Pearl River Delta that would be convenience for him to travel between study, work and home.
EIC’s consultant advised most of mainland student has same mentality of further studies in HK as Jacky. The important reasons of huge number of mainland students who preferred to study in HK, which are: HK education standard, qualification and certification in colleges and universities are captured the acknowledgement of international; there frequently have academic conference between institutions in HK and Overseas, graduate students have more opportunities to participate in overseas conferences and research work; HK is a commercial and financial centre which provide huge amount opportunities of job and integration of different cultures..
HK EIC’s consultant Miss Tse advised there is a new phenomenon of study in recent years, some professionals (such as biology, medicine, engineering, etc.) who study the second master degrees in HK for work or further studies; or study doctorate courses in overseas after finish the master degree in HK. The educational background in HK is more helpful to transferred and applied to the institutions in overseas.
In addition, the master's course fees in Hong Kong are depended on the different professional, such as Humanities Disciplines (Journalism, Sociology, Culture, Arts, Administration, etc.), Science and Engineering roughly HK$ 40,000-$ 60,000, Communications and Law round HK$ 60,000-$ 80,000 and Commerce nearly HK$ 70,000-$ 100,000. Many courses are provided scholarships the outstanding students. An annual living cost is about HK$ 40,000-$ 50,000.
Lower the threshold to take up employment and stay in HK
In 2008, fresh graduates in mainland can able to log the application to HKSAR Immigration Department for the unconditional stay in HK for 12 months to job hurting. In the same year, mainland students hold the "student visa", they can able to engage in part-time work. This is compared with the past, students can work as a part-time, they can easily integrate to society and develop their career in HK during the period.
According to " Employer Annual Report in 2007 - 2008 " (hereinafter referred to as the "Employer Annual Report"), the results show that nearly 60% of HK owned companies are expressed the mainland students who have the educational background of HK Professional as first candidate of recruitment, followed by HK local and the last is the mainland student educate in China. The consultant of EIC point out the weaknesses of the mainland students, there are single thinking, weak response capabilities; insufficient integration and so on. If students want to be success, understand and improve the weaknesses. |
