Twenty three outstanding CUHK students have been awarded the Scholarship for Prospective English Teachers 2011–12 by the Education Bureau of the HKSAR Government, accounting for the largest share of the total 50 awards available to students of various local tertiary institutions in Hong Kong.They come from three CUHK programmes related to English training or teaching, including English (5 students), English Studies and English Language Education (12 students) and Postgraduate Diploma in Education (6 students).

One of the scholarship recipients is Miss Srushti Viresh Patel (year 1, English Studies and English Language Education), an Indian born in Hong Kong. She has been studied in local primary and secondary schools. Under the encouragement and impact of her English subject teacher in secondary school, Srushti became determined to become an English teacher at a young age.

Srushti’s classmate, Chan Woon-ting Claudia, is another scholarship recipient. Claudia wished to become a teacher when she was a kid. She particularly likes teaching primary students and hopes to help them improve their English as well as provide guidance for their personal growth. She once taught a secondary student with emotional illness. In order to arouse his interest in learning, she tried to teach him through drawing which was his favourite hobby. Claudia felt greatly satisfied with the effectiveness of her teaching and the improvement of that student in learning.

Local scholarship recipients are each awarded an amount of HK$50,000 per academic year. The scholarship is tenable for the normal duration of the study programme subject to satisfactory academic progress. Recipients need to undertake that they would teach English full-time in primary or secondary schools in Hong Kong after graduation.

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