If you arrived in HK with 3 kids, you may be able to slot them in.mid-year there is usually a scattering of places in different years in different schools.
Getting kids into Y1 is going to be very difficult.
FOr ESF you do not apply at birth like DBIS, there is an application period every year, but many of the places go to siblings of existing students. For example Discovery College ESF-PIS was fully subscribed at Y1 with most kids being siblings - the available places for free-allocation were very scarce indeed.
The CX allowance is geared towards ESF - it needs a complete overhaul, as during SARS the ESF's admitted a lot of 'HK domiciled' kids, and the knock-on effect is less places for 'non-HK domiciled' students.
The aspect of English medium education is becoming a severe problem for recruitment of expatriate staff in Hong Kong.
Some expatriate engineering vacancies have remained unfilled for over a year mostly for reasons of uncompetitive salary/T&C's and problems with availability of schooling - these positions have been advertised several times in Flight International.
The airline engineering industry is very small and close knit, and when existing employees are not in a position to recommend working at CX to their friends, word soon gets around. Usually by the time CX interviews someone, they will have been turned down by both big players in the sandpit.
Tony Tyler was asked where he thought the engineers and pilots required to operate all of the new aircraft were going to come from - his reply:
"We are just going to have to pay for them"
Bring it on!
