Posted by
JoeShaw
14 yrs ago
I am strongly interested in attending Hong Kong University. I am British but living in Brussels within an expat community so I am completely comfortable not living at home. This year I will complete my iGCSEs and go on to do my A levels. I have been to HK and have friends that live there and hope to learn some Mandarin and Cantonese this summer. My brothers' girlfriend of 6 years is Cantonese and can give me advice on the necessities of HK life. But the things I please need to be answered as the HKU website I find to be complicated and full of University speech that I don't understand are:
Are there plenty of English speaking courses?
Is student life cheap compared to Western Europe?
Are there other European students?
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Yes, yes, and yes.
HKU is all-english, as far as I know. I've never been a student there, but a few of the people I've met who have attended are European.
Hong Kong is as expensive as you want it to be, but it's also as cheap as you want it to be. £100 lobster dinners? We got that. £1 noodle and shrimp dumpling dinners? We got that too. Buy £80 Armani shirts, or buy £2 Fa Yuen St. Market shirts. You can live very comfortably on £15 a day here.
And if you come over, don't believe the silly islanders if they tell you there's nothing on Kowloon (mainland) side. Everything HK Island has, we have more of it!
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Instead of doing A levels at my school, I will be doing the IB, is that accepted there?
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Are you serious? HKU has an extremely high global university ranking, way above many UK universities. The Times listing 2010-2011 ranks HKU #1 in Asia and #21 in the world. Polys don't even exist anymore in the UK! I'd like to think that any potential employers would have knowledge of education centres outside of their own country.
IB is relatively new in HK, but has been around Asia (ie Singaopore) for many years.
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