In the Xinjian Education Group conference room in Wheelock Building, Li Jianhui held a group high-level meeting to learn about the group's recent development.
At present, the enrollment of major universities in Hong Kong has started. The universities under Xinjian Education Group that will welcome new students in September include Xiangjiang Film and Television University, Xinjian University, Xiangjiang University of Finance and Economics, Xiangjiang Aviation College, and Xiangjiang College of Architectural Engineering.
As for the Xiangjiang University of Electronics and Information Engineering and Xiangjiang Medical University, they are still under construction and will not officially enroll students until next year.
It would be nothing if it were just these five universities, but there are also six universities in Hong Kong including Xiangjiang University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, etc., which will also recruit students. This means that the student sources in Xiangjiang and Lisboa are far from being able to meet the enrollment scale of the eleven universities.
This is only this year, and next year will be even more terrifying. There will be as many as 20 colleges and universities in Hong Kong enrolling new students, and the number of freshmen each year will be as high as 150,000.
This does not rule out the possibility that these universities will increase their enrollment in the future, or even add more colleges and universities. You must know that the Bryan administration proposed to establish 30 colleges and universities, but currently only two-thirds of them are.
This forces Xinjian Education Group to plan in advance to recruit more international students to Xiangjiang to avoid the enrollment numbers of several universities falling short of expectations.
As the president of the education group, Zhang Libo reported: “This year our five universities plan to enroll 32,000 students, including 8,500 students at Xinjian University, 8,000 students at Xiangjiang University of Finance and Economics, 5,500 students at Xiangjiang Film and Television University of Communication, Xiangjiang University of Architecture and Engineering and Xiangjiang Aviation University.
5,000 people each.
In Xiangjiang and Lisboa, we plan to recruit 10,000 new students, and the other 22,000 will be international students.
International students mainly come from four regions, the North, Treasure Island, ASEAN, and Central and Eastern Europe. In the North, Treasure Island, and ASEAN, we have organized the Xinjian Joint Entrance Examination, and the admissions process has ended.
Among them, there are 3,000 students on the Baodao side, 3,000 Malay students on the ASEAN side, 2,000 students in Thailand, 1,000 students in the Philippines, 800 students in Indonesia, and 200 students in Singapore.
In the north, there are one thousand in Guangdong Province, one thousand in Sichuan and Sichuan Province, one thousand in Fujian Province, and the other seven thousand mainly come from other provinces and cities in the mainland.
One thousand places are reserved for international students from the Commonwealth and other regions in Europe and the United States.
As for the last thousand, they are from Central and Eastern Europe, and quite a few of them are recommended by our senior executives in Central and Eastern Europe."
Li Jianhui was really shocked when he heard these data. The proportion of local students in several universities in Hong Kong is far lower than the proportion of international students, and the ratio actually reached 1:2.2. This is really an exaggeration.
"Libo, although we don't have many students in Xiangjiang, it's not that small. Why is your enrollment quota in Xiangjiang only 10,000?"
"Li Sheng, you also know that under the current situation in Xiangjiang, the first choice for the top students is to enter famous universities in England and the United States.
In addition, several public universities mainly recruit local students. Xiangjiang University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong are also more powerful and more popular with students than our universities. There is nothing we can do about it.
And this is also our plan for the future. You also know that nine more universities will be added next year. By then, the local student pool will not be enough. We can only consider it from the outside. With this scale and experience this year, we will be able to deal with it more calmly next year.
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After receiving this response, Li Jianhui sighed in his heart. He thought about a few years ago when Zhang, a student from Hong Kong, was so competitive in going to university that many people gave up their studies in the third or fifth form.
It has only been a few years, but the situation has already reversed. Even if all fresh graduates in Xiangjiang choose to go to university, the student pool is still far from enough.
Of course, it is impossible for these universities to admit all fresh graduates in Xiangjiang. In the case of insufficient student resources, major universities rely more on international students to improve the quality of school teaching, rather than accepting all students.
No matter how many universities there are in Hong Kong, it is destined that some students in Hong Kong will not be able to go to university.
Li Jianhui is also deeply aware of the power of Bryan's policy. Even if the policy is not relaxed, just by the arrival of so many international students every year, the permanent population of Hong Kong will accelerate.
"Libo, I don't care how you handle admissions. You must pay attention to teaching quality. I know it's impossible for several universities to catch up with Xiangjiang University and Xiangjiang Chinese University in a short period of time, but you must have a long-term plan.
We need to build several of our universities into top-notch universities in Asia and even the world.
In particular, our Xiangjiang Film and Television University, Xiangjiang Aviation College and the Xiangjiang Medical University under construction all have a good foundation."
"Please rest assured, Li Sheng. Within five years, Xiangjiang Aviation University will definitely become the first civil aviation flight maintenance and support school in Asia. Xiangjiang Film and Television University of Communication will also become Asia's top film and television media university. Our Xiangjiang Medical University is among the Asian medical schools."
He will also become a first-class existence."
You must know that Xiangjiang Hangkong University is currently training talents for Hong Kong Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Kowloon Airlines, China Airlines, Thai Airways, Malay Airlines and many other airlines. Many of its students are sent by these airlines.
The Xiangjiang Film and Television Communication University is backed by Jiayi, the largest film and television media group in Asia, as well as New Art City, East Asia Pictures, Desheng Pictures, Xinhui Pictures, Yongheng Pictures, Haojiang Pictures, etc.
Support, Xiangjiang is now the film and television media center of Asia. This cannot develop it into a top-notch school in Asia. It only shows the incompetence of the management.
The background of Xiangjiang Medical University is also profound. With the support of Xinjian Medical Group and many first-class hospitals in Xiangjiang as internship bases, it is entirely possible to become a first-class medical university in Asia.
As for several other universities, it is not so easy to become the first in Asia, especially Xinjian University. As a comprehensive university, if it wants to be on par with the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Sin Chew University, Xiangjiang University, etc., it is still difficult for the time being.
Not too possible.
Fortunately, Li Jianhui did not put forward special requirements for this, but only asked them to make long-term planning, otherwise they, the senior leaders, would have no choice but to take the blame and resign.
Considering that students from various places may not be comfortable with language exchanges after arriving, Li Jianhui also gave special instructions in this regard.
The school must take care of these students in the first semester of their freshman year and arrange teachers to teach these students Cantonese so that they can integrate into life in Hong Kong.
As for English, except for people recommended by Huang Guangxing and others, the Xinjian Joint Entrance Examination has an English test. Not talking about communication, there should be no big problems in ordinary writing and reading.
Of course, the difficulty level in the north will be lowered this time, because the north is not yet a few decades away and is not so sick about English learning at present. The students here will then strengthen their English learning so that they can integrate more quickly.
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What’s more, the universities under the Xinjian Department are beneficial to mainland and Taiwan students. These universities are the same as the current Xiangjiang Chinese University. Most professional courses are taught in Cantonese, and the textbooks are also in Chinese characters. Although they are in traditional Chinese, the mainland is far better than those in foreign countries.