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At
present, there are more than 80,000 industrial enterprises in
China managed by Hong Kong industrialists,
employing a workforce of nearly 20 million people ¡V three times the
population of Hong Kong.
However,
it is undoubtedly that
Hong
Kong
is
no longer able to
produce
enough manpower to support the development of Hong Kong companies
in China, especially when Hong Kong becomes a service-oriented society that students tend to choose business and service-orientated
subjects
over engineering. According
to the latest survey in 2006 by the Higher Education Statistics
Agency, which is the central source for the collection and
dissemination of statistics about publicly funded UK higher
education, except civil engineering, which was only ranked number
8, no other engineering courses appeared in the list of the top 10
popular subjects for Hong Kong students studying in the UK.
Lately,
the
latest trend of study reveals that
China is also stepping to the same direction
as
Hong
Kong. According to
the
latest survey conducted by British Council in China in 2006,
almost 30% of
the
students would
like to further
their
studies
abroad in business and finance
subjects,
compared with only 7%
of
the students
who
would like to
choose
to study
in technology or engineering. On the contrary, 7%
of
the job
vacancies are in accounting and finance but 17% are in technology
and engineering
in the labour
market in China.
In view of
the labor shortage in technology fields in Hong Kong and China,
Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) of The University of Warwick, the
largest manufacturing education base in Europe works together with
The
Professional Validation Council of Hong Kong Industries (PVCHK) to tackle the
problems of the professional labour shortage in technology and
engineering by launching the ¡§WMG-PVCHK
Engineering Graduate Development Scheme¡¨. In
the scheme, scholarships and job opportunities will be provided to
WMG full time MSc students and graduates.
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