What kind of student will be considered for the Harrow Scholarship? What qualities do scholarship recipients need to demonstrate?
Dr. Ahmed Hussain,
Chief Education Officer of AISL Harrow answers:
If you wish to be considered for a scholarship, we will assess your performance against Harrow's core values of Courage, Honour, Humility, Fellowship, and the standard you can achieve in your academic or professional field.
Firstly, we know that there are full, half and honorary scholarships, each of which has different requirements for the respective applicants.
If you want to apply for a full or half scholarship, you will need to have the excellent academic ability or be extremely talented in a particular area.
You may be someone who has achieved excellence in mathematics and science, art, or sport.
In addition to this, you will need to have the following qualities:
· The ability to be rational and open to the views of others
· The ability to contribute well to a team and to excel in personal achievement
· The ability to take the leadership role on your own initiative
· Perseverance and the courage to speak up
· And above all, a loving heart
That means that you show the quality of Humility, that you can be open to the opinions of others and are willing to express your own. And it also means that you show Fellowship. You are part of our community, and you are a leader who can encourage and unite your peers on the sports field or on the stage and be able to solve problems as part of a team. We expect you to have your own interests and aspiration in the field of science, art, and sport. This is what we are looking for –
not just somebody who is talented, but somebody who is talented and lives out our core values.
Will you be our next scholarship student?
On 11th March 2023
9:00~11:30
You are invited to Harrow Haikou Scholarship Educational Sharing Session.
The students can take our free scholarship eligibility assessment.
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Highlights of Education Seminar
A-Level curriculum planning and application principles for world-renowned universities.
An insight into Harrow’s educational model of a Chinese Core with Global Vision.
Application experience sharing from our previous scholarship winners.
The free scholarship eligibility assessment will be offered to the students.
You have extensive work experience in the UK, UAE, and China. What are the characteristics of Chinese students compared to students from other regions? How do you think we can help Chinese students develop into global leaders for the times, based on their characteristics?
Dr. Ahmed Hussain, Chief Education Officer of AISL Harrow answers:
Families in China value education very highly and this gives us an opportunity to work closely with parents, so that they understand what we do, how we do it, and how we help our students improve their bilingual skills. For example, what do we do in mathematics? We take the strengths of the Chinese National Curriculum and help our students to exceed expectations in mathematics, teaching them how to learn effectively and apply them to higher levels. In a land where educational opportunities are so valued, we find that Chinese students are more motivated, more engaged in their learning, and they are more eager to succeed. And all we can do is how to unleash their abilities.
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Subject learning is deeply integrated with English to promote the ability of students to use English when communicating in their specialist subjects.
One of the things we know about Chinese education is that it is very good at finding ways to learn, and Harrow can use this as a basis for building a Harrow education on top of the Chinese education system. For example, students who transfer to Harrow Upper School from a local Chinese school may be particularly good at certain subjects. What we want to do is build on this and continue to enhance their subject strengths and link them to language learning. Not just to improve these students' English language skills, but to promote their ability to use English when communicating in their specialist subjects.
It is difficult to combine subject knowledge with English language learning. And all our students need to develop and master this skill. So, there is clear evidence that the more time students spend at Harrow, the more progress they make. This is because it is a double challenge to learn the same knowledge in both Chinese and English. This indirectly increases the amount of time students spend studying and enhances the depth of learning.
At the same time, Dr. Ahmed Hussain suggested to us that our students have to face a future that we cannot envisage now, and therefore we have to equip them with competencies that are not affected by the changing times, i.e. developing students' critical thinking skills, problem-solving abilities, creativity, adaptability, transferable skills, and the bilingual ability.
As students prepare for international examinations, they are required to use what they learnt in a very different way and then apply it to real-life problems, engage in open-ended inquiry, and undertake reasoning and argumentation. Such inquiry-based learning is still very different from the approach offered by the local Chinese education system.
At last, I want to say that Harrow Haikou Scholarship Programme has provided opportunities for a wide range of students. We also benefit from a much more personalized approach to education, small class size and very low staff-to-student ratios of 1:4. We hope to help our students fulfil their deepest potential and unlock it, allowing them to turn interests into passions, then passions into genuine talent, and talent into high performance.
What has impressed you most about Harrow Haikou's progress compared to your last visit? Can you give us three key words to sum it up?