Sydney university fosters special links with HK students

Going abroad to study in universities gives students a chance to enrich their experience, broaden horizons, improve employment prospects and learn about different cultures.

Various programmes from different schools, universities and countries are offered every year and secondary school students have to prioritise their choices carefully to ensure they get the best out of their tertiary education.

Each year, universities from various countries hold information sessions in Hong Kong, explaining their facilities to secondary school graduates and advising them on application and enrolment procedures.

One of the popular Australian universities for overseas students is the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

University staff come to Hong Kong every year to conduct interviews and hold information sessions at exhibitions and representative offices. It was the first Australian university to open a Hong Kong office in October 2000.

The office is mainly responsible for providing services to prospective students, alumni, visiting staff and partners, and business associates of the university. With an estimated 10,000 alumni in Hong Kong, the university pays a lot of attention to graduates, developing alumni programmes, services and networks.

'UNSW focuses much of its attention on alumni relations as many of our best and most successful alumni hail from Hong Kong and are interested in sending their children to UNSW,' said Aleksandr Voninski, director of UNSW International.