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Date Posted: 01:47:53 01/31/03 Fri
Author: UK student
Author Host/IP: 203195091090.ctinets.com / 203.195.91.90
Subject: �C�O �L�� ߛ{�{

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many students are planning for their further education. Which university should they go to, should they stay in Hong Kong or let their parents pay for them to try out overseas education ? There are many infrastructure development in Hong Kong during the last decade. For instance, in the past, we have 2 universities only, it was tough to be chosen for a degree course. A-Level getting easier now, it is almost impossible for A-Level students with reasonable academic standard to miss the chance of studying in any university.

However, there is no evidence of a relationship between the amount of money thrown into university education and genuine educational accomplishment. For university course, British University cost more than double than a same degree course that held in one of the universities in Hong Kong. Beside the difference in the price tag, there are employment restrictions as well. Nowadays, British University charges the whole year tuition in advance even the students might have scholarship and loans coming in. In Britain, Hong Kong Students are simply the MILK COW for the British Economy. The local student only paid one-third of what the Hong Kong student paid. Furthermore, their Local Education Authority (LEA) will lend them all the tuition fees and let them have some living expenses too. On the other hand, it cost the Hong Kong parents an arm and a leg to send their kids away. The situation is even more ridiculous for Secondary School Education. The average cost is more than 200,000-00 HK dollars per year. It is enough to cover the construction cost of a front yard swimming pool in many countries. Why it worth so much money? It is never justifiable. It is simply because of their parents studied in English in the past, it is incomprehensible for their children to take an exam in Chinese. In addition to the pride they�fve lost whenever their kids couldn�ft get into few famous schools in Hong Kong. Just a matter of face, among Chinese close community. When we look at the top-notch education around the world, Germany and Japanese use their own mother-tongue language to teach. Their English is not the best but the quality of their products is the highest quality with very clever engineering that many countries admire. As a conclusion, the next generation should able to use Chinese to demonstrate their knowledge in examination. No doubt about it.

I have studied in UK before, what I�fve got is: continuous bullying [pushing around] and mis-treatment from the UK university. I�fve got very good A-Level and my parents were very generous to spend all their money in my further education. Most Hong Kong students get the worst rooms in the British School accommodation. Always in a weird corner, size is tiny and an inhumane place to live in. I was put in a storage room that was under the staircase; the ceiling is so low that I could touch the bottom of the staircase if I raise my hands. It is tinier than the maid bedroom or the closet of a master bedroom. I could not move at all if I would like to put my bicycle inside. The furniture is old and extremely tiny. This is in contrast to other single student�fs bedroom on the same floor, the room is big enough for them to park their car inside. We were all paying the same single room fees. Once and once again, these things happen to every Hong Kong student. It is just because British are arrogant and the Hong Kong students are too polite to make a complaint. It is not about the fairness, but Hong Kong student always get an inhumane room to live in, British look at us as tiny slave in one of their many colonies. They created unfair hardship for all Chinese students. Other British parents use their car to help their children to move in, does the Chinese parent take an extra suitcase, fly there and see the room that their devoted child will be living ? They could get a shock.

Very few Hong Kong parents really know what Britain is like. There are a lot of confusing Indians there, as many Indians could immigrate to Britain when India became independent. They keep on reproducing exponentially, most are either belong to Muslim or Islamic religion. Their accent is the worst in the world and their minds are just simply crazy. In cities like London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow, Indian made up a big portion of the student population. Many black people behave much better and much more educated than the always smiling-for-nothing Indian people. The Indian medical doctors are well known for their clumsiness in Britain. Those Islam and Muslim students never play fair during exam, they got a variety of cheap tricks during examination. For example, some of them will keep on shaking their legs during the whole examination if they think that you could do better than them in examination. Most British Tricks are just annoying tactics.

Other well known problems in UK : soft drug and nicking. Marijuana and ecstasy are very popular among the British public especially teenagers. Unlike Hong Kong, they do not see that as a big problem, they even have a public opinion to legalise such drug. What about student altitude towards Nicking – a slang term refers to Stealing. For the British students, if they do not have any kitchen cutlery, they simply steal it from the cafeteria. That is why there are so many second hand stores selling every household item near the school district. Most of the goods sold must be stolen items. In one summer, I left the textbooks for safekeeping in an university accommodation storage facility. The whole box of textbooks got stolen before I came back to collect them. I simply could do nothing about it. Long distance phone call and small amount of pocket money is not guardianship. I just wonder when will the Hong Kong parents get notified if something happen ? The schools will not blow their own horn and blow the money earners away !!

Independent would be difficult when Hong Kong students face constant bullying by their own kind and other white students. Though looking happy, independent, excited and eager to explore a new environment; deep down in the students hearts, all students are suffering from the loneliness of leaving all their closest family and friends, and the Chinese environment that is so familiar to them. Facing new friends, new school, new hallmates, it had to be tough so as to survive. The students face many problems and some unforeseen situations, being abandoned, they had to solve those problems all by themselves. What the parents are actually doing, putting their children in an expensive private orphanage overseas. Ironically, it would be FREE if they abandon their children in those countries. The local government would pick up the entire bill for their education. British treat Hong Kong students just like orphan refugee. That is exactly how I felt while I never able to tell my parent about the mistreatment. In my heart, I realised how much money they paid for an overseas opportunity, I don�ft want to disappoint them even when I was put in a modified storage room under a staircase that other students walk up to their decent size rooms. In reality, the parents just put their students in mentally handicap British schools because the Hong Kong schools of their choice got no place for their own children. The level of mathematics and science in Britain is well below the average standard of schools in Hong Kong. In the last few years, the GCSE O-level examination standard has dropped dramatically. It is not all right for their children to go into a Band 3 secondary schools, what is the rationale to send their children to a handicap-alike school overseas ? What is the point of spending life saving for an unworthy BritiSHIT education? Will it be better to save up those money and buy a Real house with a real lawn after a few years. An annual 200,000-00 dollar for a secondary school education simply can�ft add up.

There is a Chinese proverb that is well known among china town:
�p��l �D�� D�� D�K�l�� It is so true.
[British People are very poor, very nasty, just nuisance group]

For HK parents consider sending their kids to Britain for their education. Australian and American students pay the same fees as the overseas students for their University Education, they are much friendlier than the arrogant British. In those countries, Chinese are generally consider to be brighter in science subjects, however, they are all right about that. Unlike UK, jealousy is not an issue when fair competition is the fundamental drive of their economies for centuries. The biggest fear of mankind is Uncertainty, why the Hong Kong parents would pay a fortune to a mysterious old school in Britain for an uncertain academic attainment that they knew little about while sure that the British would be biased against Chinese kids ?

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