Pathway to University

如何帮助孩子进入世界知名学府

Mr Steve Allen 安弘博先生

Founding Head Master 创校校长

At LEH, we believe in encouraging student ambition and then helping students to set realistic targets to achieve their dreams. Throughout the School, students will participate in a structured programme of careers and higher education advice.

在LEH，我们鼓励学生树立远大的志向，然后帮助他们将其划分成切实可行的小目标，一步步实现梦想。在求学过程中，学生们能够享受到学校系统化的职业发展指导和高等教育（大学）咨询服务。

Our aim is to enable students to gain access to the very best university for the course of their choice. We will challenge them to think widely and to understand what they study at university will unlikely be related to their career once they have graduated.

我们的目标是帮助学生进入世界一流大学，并顺利选择他们心仪的课程。我们鼓励学生开拓思维，充分了解和思考未来的升学和就业方向，但同时也会提醒学生，他们在大学所学的专业不一定与未来从事的工作相匹配。

The support we provide covers 4 BIG questions that we believe help a student to decide their future pathway to the university of their choice.

在计划未来的升学和就业时，有4大问题值得思考：

At each stage of the process, we use a mixture of the expertise we have in School, combined with support from LEH in London, from the universities themselves, and also some very helpful online software.

在每个阶段，我们的学生都会得到多方面的帮助，包括佛山霍利斯在校团队的专业建议，我们的姐妹学校英国LEH的支持，以及一些实用的在线分析软件。同时，学校与许多大学的招生部门建立联系，详细了解入学标准，帮助学生更好做出决策。

To understand the starting point, it is best to consider your child’s strengths and interests. What are they good at and what do they really enjoy? They might not be the same.

为了了解孩子所处的起跑线，首先我们要考虑的是孩子擅长做什么和喜欢做什么，而这两个问题的答案不一定是吻合的。

At LEH, we have robust conversations with students about what they enjoy and what they do well. We encourage them to be honest and to think widely. We use 2 software packages that help them to gain a better understanding of themselves and to suggest careers that might interest them.

在LEH，我们会跟学生展开积极的对话，探讨他们喜欢和擅长什么，鼓励他们自由思考，然后坦诚地说出心声。我们也会使用两套专业软件，帮助他们更好地了解自己，并提出一些他们可能感兴趣的职业选择。

For parents, try to put yourself in your children’s shoes and to answer these questions the way they would – and not the way you, or their grandparents, might wish them to answer. If you are finding this difficult, then you will understand how hard students find it and begin to think about the conversation that you need to have with them.

家长们可以尝试代入孩子的角色，从孩子的角度来思考和回答，而不是以父母或者爷爷奶奶的身份去判断。如果你觉得这些问题很难，那么就会理解到孩子们在思考这些问题时也面临同样的困境。这时候，父母就应该思考如何和孩子积极对话。

For me, my passion at School was History but I was aware that Mathematics and Physics were my strengths and were the areas I should study in more detail. And it was a safe choice because with these subjects I would always be employable. When I was a teenager, in the UK, unemployment was very high. However, I still kept my interest in history and it has helped to shape my future life. Perhaps that is why I have ended up travelling so widely and working overseas for so much of my adult life. So, it's important that we balance what we're really good at and will influence our career future, while keeping our passions and interests alive.

我想跟大家分享我的故事。在上学的时候，我最喜欢的科目毫无疑问是历史，但我也清楚明白数学和物理是我的优势学科，加上当时英国的失业率比较高，所以选择数学和物理于我而言是个明智的选择。但这不等于我要放弃对历史的热爱，至今我仍然喜欢探索不同国家的历史，或许这就是我毕业后周游四海，在全球不同地方工作的潜在驱动力。所以，鱼与熊掌并非不能兼得，关键是我们要学会如何取得平衡。

When I left University there were no mobile phones, personal computers were still very limited and the world wide web was still a dream; Alibaba, TaoBao, MeiTuan and WeChat did not exist. Today‘s major employers around the world were only small companies if they existed at all.

在我大学毕业的时候，世界上没有手机，个人电脑还是稀罕之物，更不用说互联网、阿里巴巴、淘宝、美团… 当今的许多大型企业在那时候根本不存在；就算已经存在，也只是小公司。

The world will change a lot in the future. When our current 10- and 11-year-old students graduate in 2033, the World will be very different and so we need to think carefully about the careers that the students of today will follow.

未来的世界有无数的变数。等到我们学校目前最年轻的学生（10-11岁）大学毕业，已经是2033年。那时候的世界已经焕然一新，所以我们需要谨慎地思考学生们未来的职业方向。

In reality, most careers do not need a specific qualification – Doctors, Engineers, Architects do need specific training – but most careers do not. Your children will have many careers and they need to be flexible and adaptable, intellectually, in terms of their work ethic and practice, and in terms of how and where they work.

在现实中，大多数的职业并不需要特定的专业资格，除了医生、工程师和建筑师等。孩子们在未来会尝试许多不同的职业，这就要求他们在面对不同的工作情况时展示出灵活性和适应性。

So how do we move from ideas about careers to what to choose to study at School and at University? This is where the individual support of the student’s pastoral tutor at LEH is really important. They get to know your child (and hopefully you) very well and help to provide the insight required for good decisions to be made. They will certainly challenge you and your child’s decisions to ensure they are robust, well-considered and provide as much future choice as possible.

那么我们如何通过对职业的理解来决定学习的科目以及大学的升学方向呢？在LEH，我们每位学生都会分配到一位私人导师，并获得一对一的咨询和帮助。导师们将会深入关注和了解孩子们的情况（包括家庭情况），并提供具有洞察力和启发性的意见，帮助孩子们做出更适合他们的选择。他们也会挑战孩子和家长的想法，从而确保这些决策是深思熟虑后才作出的。

While we are talking about subjects and university choices and destinations, I would like to talk about some myths.

既然谈到学科和升学选择，我想纠正一些关于升学方面的认知谬误。

A Level qualifications are considered to be the Gold Standard university entrance in English speaking countries, UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore & Canada, and are certainly accepted by all major universities in Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, The Netherlands and even in France, Germany and Italy…

在以英文为母语的国家，例如英国、美国、澳大利亚、新西兰、新加坡和加拿大， A Level证书都被认为是大学申请的黄金标准，另外在日本、马来西亚、泰国、荷兰甚至法国、德国和意大利等国家的主流大学， A Level证书也广受青睐。

These are just a few of the universities that I have personally helped students attend over the last 5 to 10 years.

在最近5-10年，我曾经帮助学生顺利升学到众多世界顶尖学府，以上展示的仅仅是其中一部分。

The courses offered and the application systems for each country could be very different. However, the application process for all locations requires the student to make an application and the School to provide a supporting statement, including evidence of

• academic achievement 

• academic reach, interest beyond the taught curriculum and evidence of enrichments of Extra Curriculum Activities

• character development and resilience 

• personal drive, a strong evidence-based reason for studying that particular course and it has to come from the student’s heart 

不同国家的大学所能提供的课程与申请方式各有差异，但所有大学都会看重的是学生的申请材料和学校提供的学生报告，包括以下四大关注点：

• 学术成就

• 学术扩展，即在学术之外的兴趣和丰富的课外活动经历

• 个人性格发展和适应能力

• 内驱力，即对所选学科发自内心的热爱和有理有据的认可。

Throughout each student’s time at LEH we provide a range of support to students and their families to ensure they are ready for the move to Higher Education (University).

学生在校期间，我们都会为每位学生和他们的家庭提供一系列的支持，以确保学生们为升学做好准备。

1. 针对不同的学生及其所在的年级组，学校提供个性化的建议，并在关键时间点与学生家长会面交流。

2. 学生的个人导师将会全程辅助学生进行升学和就业方向的选择

3. 通过PHSE课程（体育、个人德育、健康和社会公民教育课程）向学生提供专业的就业和升学建议。

4. 在PHSE课程和课外时间，学生可以使用网络上的自我评估和分析工具，获取参考意见。

Our goal is for the students to be making the right choice of course and best choice of university for the course.

我们的最终目标是帮助学生作出正确的升学规划，顺利进入理想的大学，学习心仪的课程。