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17 March, 2020

Updated: Aug 12, 2021

Updates this week

Hope you are all staying healthy! We have so many updates from the local universities and overseas this week. Check the below and get more information!

For those who are preparing for examinations, you

may check the HKU website for the IB Tips and online lessons. These might be useful for your preparation.

What's on in Hong Kong...

[New] HKU&U Website

The University has been issuing offers and some of you might have already received them. To help students with offers better picture their journey at HKU, they have recently launched the HKU&U website with consolidated information for you. The HKU&U website contains information on: offer acceptance, accommodation, visa application, scholarships, upcoming events, FAQs and more!

The University also have exclusive online sessions on their Events & Happenings page, where you could register for the upcoming sharing sessions and view the playbacks of previous ones.

[New] HKU Cloud-based Learning

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has launched a series of Online Support Initiatives to encourage secondary school students to continue learning at home to enhance their knowledge.

The initiatives include an online course platform "HKU Cloud-based Learning" (https://aal.hku.hk/admissions/local/hku-cloud-learning), giving secondary school students an opportunity to maximize their time for knowledge advancement especially during this no-schooling period. The online courses feature trending topics such as medicine, economics, IT and humanities, etc. in which most of them are self-paced video lectures. You are welcome to join these HKU Online courses for free. More online courses (e.g. livestream courses) will be available soon. Please stay tuned.

[New] HKU - IB Top Scorers Exam Tips Sharing

In order to help IB students better prepare for the exams, three IB top scorers who are current students at HKU hosted a Facebook live session on March 4.

In the live session, the top scorers shared their preparation tips and test-taking strategies that contributed to their achievements in IB exams. They also answered questions from IB students locally and overseas. Those questions are subject specific such as how to effectively memorise Biology content and how to approach Business Paper 2 10 marker, which might also be useful for you.

Please check this link here for the playback of the live session.

[New] Kaplan Insight - Advanced Time Management in SAT and ACT Math

How to further increase your speed in solving SAT/ACT Math questions?

Check our SAT/ACT Trainer, Paul Lim's strategy. Read More here.

[New] The American Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation

2019 / 2020 Lyn Edinger U.S. Studies Scholarship

AmCham Charitable Foundation is proud to announce the annual Lyn Edinger U.S. Studies Scholarship. The Scholarship is available to a qualified graduate of a secondary school in Hong Kong to pursue studies at a U.S. university.

The Award: One (1) one-time scholarship award of HK$24,000 for a secondary school graduate from Hong Kong to pursue undergraduate study at a U.S. college or university.

Eligibility Requirements - Students must fulfill ALL of the following criteria to apply:

1. Hold permanent residency in Hong Kong.

2. Have received six years of continuous education in a secondary school in Hong Kong.

3. Be enrolled now as a full-time student in Secondary 6 of a Hong Kong school for the year 2019-2020.

4. Have successfully gained admission to an undergraduate degree program at a U.S. four-year college or university as a first-year student in the fall of 2020.

For more information please click here.

What's on in other countries...

[New] King's College London webinars

In the face of travel cancellations amid the Covid-19 concerns, KCL would like to invite all interested students and parents to join them online for series of webinars.

General Engineering – Friday 20th March at 7pm HKT

Pharmacy – Thursday 26th March at 7pm HKT

King’s College London Info Session – Friday 27th March at 7pm HKT

Please click the above links for more information and registration.

[New] Announcing the launch of the Cambridge Female Future Leaders programme

Immerse Education is pleased to announce our new programme, exclusively for females aged 16-18 years old - the Female Future Leaders programme. The programme is a multi-disciplinary course that explores a spectrum of subjects through the lens of gender and intersectional equality. Discover Business, Politics, Law and Science and the important role that women have to play in defining our future. Promising female students from all over the world will learn together with academic and industry leaders, developing the knowledge and skills to become a leader of the future!

Save £250 using INSPIRING250 by 30th March 2020. Learn more by clicking here.

[New] Oxford Summer School by Oxford Royale Academy (ORA)

Oxford Royale Academy is delighted to share further information about ORA's Oxford Summer School for ages 13-18, including a link to their new brochure which is now available to download.

** Where do students live and study? Summer school will take place on the campus of the world-renowned University of Oxford. Students will live in undergraduate accommodation and study in university seminar rooms and lecture theatres, enjoying an authentic taste of student life in the world's most famous academic institution.

** When does the summer school take place? The summer school runs from 7th June to 29th August. Students typically stay for two or more weeks, with each course starting on a Sunday and ending on a Saturday.

**What courses are available? Our courses span a huge range of fascinating subjects often not covered in the school curriculum, some of which are listed below. We are proud to offer more subject variety than any other summer school in Oxford.

Medicine, Law, Mathematics, Business, Engineering, Architecture, Tech & Coding, English, SAT Prep, Politics, Veterinary Science, Computer Science

Check the updates here.

[New] Jacobs University - Online Info Session

The University is offering the following online information sessions as part of the Cialfo Online University Fair which is taking place on March 20, 23, and 24. Please find webinar registration links below:

March 20, 20:00 (China Standard Time): Jacobs University Session 1 March 24, 17:00 (China Standard Time): Jacobs University Session 2 Should you also be interested in hearing more about opportunities for higher education in Europe, the European Universities Consortium (EUC) will also be hosting a session on March 20 at 17:00 (China Standard Time). You can find the registration information for this session here.