Talking to the top: OUHK LiPACE’s Professor Lui Yu-hon shares his thoughts on a new MBA course

Many career-minded professionals in Hong Kong amass a wealth of specialised, technical knowledge. They then ask themselves what next to keep moving up the career ladder.

This is exactly the type of students the continuing education arm of the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) has in mind as it launches an MBA from the University of Birmingham.;

“An MBA can help them move into general management,” says Professor Lui Yu-hon, director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education (LiPACE) of OUHK. “Several of our other graduate level programmes have helped students change careers or move into management roles within their companies. We believe that the MBA will make a similar, if not bigger, impact on our students' careers.”

^{Professor Lui Yu-hon, director of LiPACE, started his career in banking and worked as the head of Treasury Department at a foreign financial institution before becoming an academic.}

The University of Birmingham programme, run locally by LiPACE, is currently accepting applications for its first intake until 25 May. Those admitted will start the initial module at the end of June.