Language education ( Chin)

*Where did the 1999 Language Education (Chinese Language & Literature) graduates go ?*
	Careers Education and Placement Centre

I. Introduction

The information in this paper is extracted from the Graduate Employment Survey of 1999 to answer the following questions about Bachelor of Education in Language Education (Chinese Language & Literature) graduates :-

How many were employed six months after graduation ?

Among those who were employed full-time, how long did it take them to get their first job offer ?

In which sectors were they employed ?

How much salary did they receive ?

How many job offers did they receive ?

Who were their employers and what were their job titles ?

II. Employment Situations in 1999
All the 14 graduates from this programme responded to the survey. Their employment situations are listed below.

	BED(CHIN)				HKU Overall*
	1999		1998		1999		1998
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
No. of respondents	14	100	11	100	2475	100	2383	100
Employed	14	100	11	100	1928	78	1795	75
Unemployed seeking F/T job	0	0	0	0	79	3.2	157	6.6
Further Studies	0	0	0	0	455	18	413	17
Emigrated/Returned to home country	0	0	0	0	4	0.2	3	0.1
Not seeking F/T job	0	0	0	0	9	0.4	15	0.6

* HKU Overall refers to the figure for the total HKU population and includes M.B.,B.S. and B.D.S. graduates.

III. Time Taken to Secure Employment
The time taken for graduates to secure employment is shown below.

	% of new graduates who have secured employment
By the end of	1999	1998
May or before	50%	9.1%
June	100%	46%
July	100%	100%

IV. Employment Sectors
All the graduates from this programme were employed in educational institutions.

	% of graduates
Sector	1999	1998
Educational Institutions	100%	100%

V. Basic Salary and Gross Income
The remuneration received by graduates from this programme is shown below.

	Basic Salary				Gross Income
	BED(CHIN)		HKU Average*		BED(CHIN)		HKU Average*
	1999	1998	1999	1998	1999	1998	1999	1998
Mean	$23,231	$22,411	$14,480	$15,496	$23,231	$22,411	$15,716	$16,557
Median	$24,320	$23,014	$10,870	$12,300	$24,320	$23,014	$11,917	$13,325
Minimum	$19,905	$19,000	$1,000	$1,000	$19,905	$19,000	$3,000	$5,000
Maximum	$24,320	$24,320	$58,000	$58,000	$24,320	$24,320	$60,000	$59,000

HKU Average refers to the figure for the total HKU population and includes M.B.,B.S. and B.D.S. graduates.

VI. Number of Full-Time Job Offers
The number of job offers received by graduates from this programme is shown in the following table.

*No. of job offers received*	No. of graduates (% of graduates)
One	6 (43%)
Two	4 (29%)
Three	4 (29%)

VII. Names of Employers and Job Titles
The job titles of graduates from this programme in full-time employment and the names of their employers are listed below.

*Employers*	Job Titles
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS -
Buddhist Mau Fung Memorial College	Graduate Master
Buddhist Mau Fung Memorial College	Graduate Master
Buddhist Sin Tak College	Certificate Master
Caritas St Francis Prevocational School	Graduate Master
Christian Alliance S W Chan Memorial College	Graduate Master
Concordia Lutheran School	Graduate Master
Kiangsu - Chekiang College	Graduate Master
Lions College	Graduate Master
St Mary's Canossian College	Graduate Master
St Stephen's Church College	Graduate Master
SWC Memorial College	Graduate Master
Tang Siu Tong Secondary School	Graduate Master
Tin Ka Ping Secondary School	Graduate Master
Organization's name not reported	Graduate Master

Note : Some of the 1999 graduates indicated willingness to talk to individual students about their work. Contact numbers can be obtained from counsellors at the CePc.

Similar information on graduates from other disciplines is available for reference in the Careers Library. Please contact the CePc for further details.

Careers Education and Placement Centre

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Cindy Chan

August, 2000

The analysis is based on information provided by the respondents, and the Careers Education & Placement Centre should not be held responsible for any errors arising therefrom.

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