当回忆自己的教育旅程， 其中包括4年研究生教育在内一共有20多年之久，我会因为在那段时光的所得所想而百感交集。一方面，我感到十分有福气，不仅仅是因为父母对我教育的全力支持及积极参与，再者就是我有幸在年轻的时候能进入顶级教育机构学习，这又是基于父母的努力和牺牲才有的结果。另一方面，我感觉我可以从学校学到如此之多，也渴望有机会重新再学一遍。

我们花费大量时间争取成为“佼佼者”，这意味着学业上获得优秀成绩，成立足球队，成为第一小提琴手，或者担任学校新闻简报的编辑。拥有更多经费的学校为学生提供了更多机会，我们这些有抱负的学生充分利用这些机会，在各种各样的活动中投入了大量的时间，目标是为了打磨和提高自己的技能。在大学期间，我们开始变得更加专注，在研究生学习阶段更是投入更多时间去深入研究学习。在二十几岁的时候，我们逐渐成长为全面发展且受过良好教育的年轻人，同时也掌握了学习中的艺术和精湛技巧。当然我们没有实际的社会经验，但没有关系，因为理论上来说教育已经赋予了我们技能，我们能够弄清楚怎么去工作，这确实是每个人在工作中所必需的，不管是从事医生、律师、咨询顾问还是银行家等职业。

也许在四到五年的职业生涯之后，当很多人发现自己过于专业化、甚至只是因循沿袭时，我们开始回顾自己的教育历程。我发现那些受过良好教育的人回想过去，他们希望能重新接受一次教育。即使我们认为自己在学校已经学了如此之多，但现在看来，我们仅仅是接触到各种机会的表面而已。当我们回头看，然后说：“哇，我在学校学了那么多，但还有很多东西不能熟练运用，”这才是受过良好教育的体现。良好的教育激发我们好奇心，勇于尝试新事物，深入研究感兴趣的东西。良好教育能让我们意识到目前我们学到的知识是如此的少，还有年轻的我们是多么无知。也许这观点看起来比较奇怪，这只是我个人的想法，但我认为良好的教育带给你一种富有深意的困惑感，然后让你处在一种略为不安的状态，因为你会被无数不同的事物所启发，且持续性地被推向不同的方向，而这一切对于我来说是一件好事。

如果你回顾自己的教育经历然后思考：“是的，我几乎学到了所有可能学到的知识和技能”，这表示也许你的学校没有足够的资源足以让你能真正挑战自己，或者你错过了最重要的一节课：总是不断学习。

When I think back on my education, which covers a 20-year period including 4 years of post-college graduate education, I have mixed feelings in terms of what I got out of all that time. On the one hand, I feel extremely blessed, not only to have had the full support of parents that were actively involved in my education, but also for the opportunity to attend top academic institutions beginning from a young age, which again came as a result of the hard work and sacrifices made by my family. On the other hand, I feel like I could have gotten so much more out of school and yearn for the chance to do it all over again.

We spend so much of our time in school trying to “do well”, whether that means getting good grades, making the football team, becoming first violin, or being an editor on the school newspaper. At the schools with more money, we have many opportunities and as ambitious students we take advantage of them and devote countless hours to honing our skills across a wide variety of activities. In college we begin to specialize and do so even more in graduate school. Sometime around our mid-twenties we emerge a well rounded and educated young adult, highly skilled in the art of being a student. Of course we have no real world experience, but that’s fine, because theoretically our education has given us the tools to figure it out on the job, which is indeed what everyone ends up doing, doctors, lawyers, consultants, and bankers alike.

Perhaps 4 to 5 years into our professional lives, when many of us find ourselves over specialized and in somewhat of a rut, we look back at our education. And what I realize is that those who had a good education look back and wish they could do it again. Even though we think we did so much in school, we can now see that we just scratched the surface of all the opportunities we had. When you can look back and say, “wow, I did a lot in school, but there was so much I was too immature to take advantage of,” that’s the sign of a good education. A good education teaches us to be curious, to try new things, to dive deep into things that inspire us. A good education makes us realize how little we know now and how stupid we were when we were younger. Although it might sound strange, it’s my personal belief that a good education will give you a profound sense of confusion and put you somewhat at unease, because you’ll be inspired by so many different things and constantly be pulled in different directions – and to me that’s a good thing.

If you look back on your education and think, “yea I pretty much got everything out of it that was possible,” then either your school didn’t have enough resources to really challenge you or you missed out on the most important lesson, which is to always keep learning.

会计作为本科的一个专业很受女生的欢迎,尤其对那些不具备身份优势的国际学生而言,良好的就业前景和旺盛的需求非常吸引人.对于修完本科会计专业而想进一步深造的学生,是继续修读会计硕士,还是选择其它方向的硕士项目,很值得慎重考虑.

来自美国知名大学在金融和会计专业的终身教授,作为肯特咨询公司的高级顾问,给出了很好的建议.他们认为对那些本科学习会计专业,将来想从事金融工作的学生而言,研究生选金融硕士可能是最佳方案. 既有会计的技能又有金融的训练会使得他们在找工作时占优势.其实道理很简单,会计和金融对任何从业者来说都是这个行业最重要的,不可或缺的基石. 当你经过本科会计严格的训练,硕士在金融分析,建模等方面的学习和操练,你会在金融的职场上无往而不胜.

Accounting as a major is a very popular choice for female students. Its promising employment opportunity after college education makes it quite attractive to many international students who normally have disadvantage in labor market. For those students who majored in accounting as undergraduate study and want to further study in graduate school, whether to continue in accounting or pursuit other direction, is a tough choice.

According to KCG’s advisors of tenure professors of Finance and Accounting from some top universities of America, the best choice for those accounting majored undergraduate students who want to pursuit finance / accounting career path, is to apply for a Master of Finance program. With both accounting and finance equipped, those students should have better opportunities in job market when they graduate from graduate school. The logic behind this advice is pretty clear, accounting and finance are the two most important and indispensable parts for anyone who takes career path in financial industry. With solid accounting training in undergraduate education and a further training on financial analysis and modeling in graduate school, you will prevail in your future career.

职业化是一个广泛使用的词汇.按照我的理解它有几层含义.首先是态度.职业人士对他们所从事的事情抱有高度专注的态度,可能是为了一个合同或者是一个承诺.这背后是执着和坚持.直到完成他们的职责,职业人士不会半途而废.其次是交付的质量.职业人士看重他们交付的"活"的质量,因为这与他们在江湖上的名声和地位息息相关, 它在很大程度上确定了人在社会上的位置.为此,职业人士要不断地去改进和完善自己的技能.最后,职业化是一种生活方式.对待那些生活中对你很重要的事情,你可以采用很认真的职业化的做法,你也可以以不经意的方式去处理,结果自然是大不相同.从职业的范畴来看,旧时代的骑士和当今的专业运动员很有代表性.

我最欣赏的当今最具代表性的运动员是拉斐尔.纳达尔.显然,纳达尔目前已经取得了在网球界的历史地位.”红土之王”,连续八次赢得法国网球公开赛等开创历史的记录.他所展示的远不止这些.纳达尔永远保持积极专注的态度,即使是在他受到伤痛折磨和大满贯决赛遇到挫折的关键时候.正如他所说,他专注于每一个来球,尽其所能做好每一次回击.他积极的态度不仅仅局限在对待困难和逆境.他善待周边的人,包括他致命的对手. 你可以看到他的态度是自然,真诚的.回顾他的网球生涯,你可以清楚地看到他在不断的进步和完善自己.以前他只能赢得红土场地的大满贯.现在,在2013年,他赢得了他参加的所有硬地场地的比赛,包括美国网球公开赛.赛场内外,他是职业运动员的典范,年轻人的楷模.所到之处,他的谦逊的话语闪耀着光芒,他专注的精神激励着大家, 尤其是年轻人.

Professionalism is a term widely used. According to my understanding, it has few important components. Number one is attitude. Professionals hold dearly a dedicated attitude towards what they do, either according to an agreement or a promise. Behind this attitude, there is a character of persistence. Until they achieve their goal of delivery of their duties, they will not stop working. Number two is quality of the deliverables. Professionals care about their qualities of work or delivery which should be consistent with their reputations in the market. Obviously, a person’s name as a professional in work basically defines his or her status in business society. To achieve high standard quality, professionals should keep polishing their tools and skills restlessly. Finally, professionalism is a spirit and life style. For those things significant to you in your life, you can treat them seriously as a professional or you can just approach it with a mediocre mindset. You will experience entirely different consequences and reflections as a life. From occupational point of view, the knight from ancient times and sportsman in nowadays are good examples of professionals.

One of the most representative sportsmen as a professional, for whom I admire most, is Rafael Nadal. Apparently, he has achieved historic status in the tennis sport of all time in terms of his dominate position as “King of Clay” and 8 times winner of French Open in a row etc. What he demonstrated is far beyond than those records. Nadal always holds a positive attitude, especially in tough times when facing physical injures and critical set back in the finals of Grand Slam. As he said, he always focuses on each coming ball and tries his best to strike back. His positive attitude is not limited to his view towards adversity. He treats other people, especially his most dreadful opponents, nicely. You can tell his sincerity and genuine kindness towards people in general. If you take a look back his growth path, you can see clearly his constant improvement on skills. He used to be the winner in clay court, but not in grass and hard court. Now in the season of 2013, he has won consecutively all the matches he attended in hard courts, including Grand Slam of US Open. Either inside or outside of court, Nadal behaves excellently as a professional player and as an exemplary young man. His humble words shine where he goes and his persistent spirit inspire many people, especially younger generation.

国际课程,或国际学校在中国已经很流行.它将持续热门若干年,从一线城市延伸到二三线城市,从一流高中扩展到二流高中.对那些不是简单地将国际课程的建设外包给第三方机构,而是认真地从美国,加拿大或英国寻找合作学校的中国高中而言,起草一份正式的征求建议书(RFP)是非常重要的第一步. 要准备征求建议书,中方学校必须首先清楚建立国际课程,或项目的目标,品牌,合作模式,对合作方的要求,课程的选择,师资的要求和获取,预算,项目实施时间表,以及申报和批准的流程等. 征求建议书对中方和外方学校来讲都是重要的指导性文件.

肯特咨询作为专注于为中国高中提供建立国际课程,或项目的专业咨询服务的公司,已经为一些中国高中在寻找美国合作学校的过程中提供了包括起草征求建议书并筛选出理想的候选学校作为长期的合作伙伴等服务.一些参与其中的美方学校对在肯特咨询指导下的,符合西方规范和职业化要求的,操作流程都深感满意.作为国际化的一部分, 征求建议书以及相关的项目运作和管理的理念和方法对中国高中而言都是宝贵的学习和操练的机会.这也正是肯特咨询作为顾问公司的价值之一.

International Curriculum / School is already popular in China and it will keep growing fast in next few years, expanding from top tier cities to second tier and third tier cities, from top tier high schools to second tier high schools. For those Chinese schools which are seriously looking for partner schools from USA, Canada or UK, not just outsourcing everything to third party, a formal RFP (Request for Proposal) is a very important first step towards this goal of finding a good partner from western countries. To prepare a RFP, the Chinese school should be clear about what they are going to do with their project in terms of goals, brand, collaborative model, curriculum selection, faculties and their availability, budgets, timetables of project and application for approval process etc. This RFP will be a guideline for both the school looking for partner and the schools responding to this request.

KCG as a dedicated consulting firm for advisory services to high schools of China on establishing international curriculum / school has helped some Chinese high schools to solicit to potential schools from USA as candidates for partner. KCG helps those schools with drafting RFP and going through the whole process of screening and selecting good partners as their long term collaborations. Many schools from USA are quite satisfied with such assistance on communicating with Chinese high schools with a standardized process and format. As part of internationalizing, RFP and professional management skills in establishing those collaborations with USA schools have educated many Chinese high schools and improved their skills on running a project. That is one of important value propositions KCG is providing.