长江英语俱乐部第二次活动即将举行

尊敬的各位同学，

以“旨在提高学员英语水平、增进同学间的友谊、创造更多的交流沟通机会为宗旨的长江英语俱乐部已于10月24日正式成立，并在当天成功举办了首次活动。 

长江英语俱乐部，是长江校友会旗下的兴趣俱乐部之一，由在英国《金融时报》任职的史军宝同学发起并担任会长。 

长江英语俱乐部计划每两周开展一次活动，将在不同的场合、围绕不同的主题次序展开，俱乐部成员将有机会广泛参与到与英语文化相关的各类活动中，进行情景思考和对话交流。


英语俱乐部的第二次活动将于本周日在北京举行，本次活动将以10月31日在《金融时报》报道的新闻"China's business schools move up rankings" 为引导文章, 围绕全球商学院教育等问题展开讨论.

请大家在活动前阅读以下新闻报道，并就随后的几个问题进行思考：
China's business schools move up rankings
By Della Bradshaw | Published: October 31 2004 21:54 | Last updated: October 31 2004 21:54

China is emerging as a main centre of top-flight business education, according to a Financial Times ranking of Executive MBAs, which shows four of the top 20 programmes are based there. 

The finding underscores Beijing's success in meeting growing demand for high-quality business education at home as the Chinese economy emerges on to the world stage. 

It comes at a time when US visa restrictions have added to the barriers to overseas study. 

All of the schools, three in Hong Kong and one in Shanghai, have western backing. 

The highest-ranked Chinese programme is run jointly by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Kellogg school at Northwestern University, Illinois. It is rated number six in the world, ahead of programmes from Columbia in New York and London Business School in the UK. 

The other three Chinese programmes in the top 20 are from the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Ivey school from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, which runs a second campus in Hong Kong. 

The highest-rated Asian programme overall, however, is under the auspices of the University of Chicago, which runs an EMBA course in Singapore. 

The EMBA model is particularly suited to developing economies because, unlike the traditional American MBA, it does not require managers to stop working, says Bing Xiang, dean of the Cheung Kong graduate school of business, which was set up in January 2002 by Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire. 

The Chinese government has been particularly keen to promote these kind of degrees, in which managers study and work at the same time. 

Chinese business people and academics believe the country needs to produce 300,000 MBA graduates a year in order to compete internationally and the Chinese government has mandated the top-30 schools to produce 5,000 EMBA students between them each year. 

The Asian programmes still have a long way to go before they can dominate the EMBA rankings. 

This year all five top slots are occupied by US business schools, with the Wharton school at the University of Pennsylvania taking the top spot for the fourth year in a row. 

Schools that are located in big cities - New York, London, Chicago and Madrid - prove strongest, largely because they can draw from a talented pool of applicants. 

In total, 49 of the 75 programmes in this year's table are from America and 20 from Europe. 

Question:
<1>Tell us why you chose Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business? 
<1> what do you like about CKGSB?

<2> what do you know about other business schools?
<2> which are the best business school in the world in your opinion?

<3> After all, can doing business in China be taught or learnt in a school?
<3> what are some of the fundamental rules of doing business in China?

<4> Do you enjoy being a businessman or company manager? 
<4> Would you consider doing anything else in your next life?

<5> what is more important：learning new knowledge from professors or networking among schoolmates?

活动时间及地点：
时间： 11月7日（本周日）下午2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 
地点： 朝阳区工体东路8号, 康堡花园 A2座1501室 (楼下的路边可以停车) 

报名联系人： 长江校友会办公室 宋玮 女士 
电子邮件：wsong@ckgsb.edu.cn 
电话：85188858 - 3260 
手机：13910805006 

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