Wednesday 21" May, 2008
10.00-11 .15am
Eliza Tse - Education Consultant
Room 504 Valley Centre
80-82 Morrison Hill Rd, Hong Kong.
Eliza worked for Education Adelaide until 2003
when the Government closed the Hong Kong office .
She started her business "Education and Training Group" and works as the Principal Education
Consultant . As one of her post graduate degrees MBA
is from the University of Adelaide, she has been
keen to promote South Australian schools and universities to her client . While there are huge agencies
in Hong Kong such as IDP, Eliza prides herself as one of the smaller agencies in providing a boutique
service which is individually tailored to the student and family's needs. As a qualified social worker
she also prides herself on both her detailed pre-departure briefing sessions and on going counselling
services for both student and family during the period of study .
Currently Eliza has students studying a Pembroke, Woodcroft College, Eynesbury, Mercedes,
Immanuel, and Concordia schools, Regency and TAFE, SABIT, and all three South Australian
Universities . She facilitates a very active Parent support group and the children are put in contact with
each other in Adelaide .
Eliza showed us her program guide for a very successful seminar that she ran in 2007 devoted to
studying in Adelaide, in conjunction with Education Adelaide . She also has good contacts in the media
and has editorials promoting Adelaide in local newspapers . She says that the best selling points for her
are of Adelaide is safe, with a good quality of education, it is affordable compared to other states, with
a small but friendly Chinese community. She also highlighted the fact that the current government in
South Australia is seen as very supportive to visiting schools and especially acknowledged that her
students are entitled to concession transport fares in this state, which is not
necessarily available in the
other states .
She was very complimentary of Education Adelaide and the level of support given to the agents in
Hong Kong . However, she is still disappointed that the Hong Kong office has closed
and feels that
there is still a role for Education Adelaide to be permanently in Hong Kong . Although South Australia
is the only state to have increased its profile in the last five years (See table
1), and she believes that she
has contributed to this increase through her relationship to South Australia. She was pleased to be part
of a group who met with Minister Paul Caica when he was
in Hong Kong earlier in the year .
Table 1
Number of Hon Kong Student Enrolments in Australia b State
Nov - 04
Nov
- 05
Nov - 06
Nov - 07
%Change to
2006
NSW
7,508
7,110
6,902
6,739
-2.40%
VIC
7,279
6,514
5,965
5,506
-7.70%
QLD
3,454
3,152
3,070
2,960
-3.60%
WA
2,273
2,241
2,269
2,240
-1 .30%
SA
1,521
1,538
1,565
1,666
6.50%
ACT
538
487
433
435
0 .50%
TAS
165
168
160
154
-3 .80%
NT
20
15
8
7
-12 .50%
TOTAL
22,758
21,225
20,372
19,707
-3 .30%