2011/02/09
Dirty Day─U2
U2 Lyrics - Dirty Day
I don't know you
And you don't know the half of it
I had a starring role
I was the bad guy who walked out
They said be careful where you aim
'cause where you aim you just might hit
You can hold onto something so tight
You've already lost it
Dragging me down
That's not the way it used to be
You can't even remember
What I'm trying to forget
It was a dirty day
Dirty day
You're looking for explanations
I don't even understand
If you need someone to blame
Throw a rock in the air
You'll hit someone guilty
From father to son
In one life has begun
A work that's never done
Father to son
(And love...it won't last kissin' time)
[Repeat 3 times]
Get it right
There's no blood thicker than ink
Hear what I say
Nothing's simple as you think
Wake up
Some things you can't get around
I'm in you
More so when they put me in the ground
These days, days, days run away like horses over the hill
These days, days, days run away like horses over the hill...
[Repeat and fade until end]
lyrics
英國媒體發文告誡遠離中國股市
2011年02月09日 15:52:43 來源: 人民網
英國《理財周刊》(Money Week)主編莫裏‧薩默塞特‧韋布(Merryn Somerset Webb) 日前在英國《金融時報》(Finance Times)發文稱,中國的價格上漲使得中國生產優勢不再,而人口問題使中國的股市也不容樂觀。他勸人們遠離中國市場。文章摘要如下:
幾周前,我在火車上遇到了一位身材魁梧的服裝制作商,他整個旅程都是在不斷給客戶打電話,告知他們衣服漲價了。有些人問為什麼,他說,因為中國的廠家價格上漲了,他們也受到了影響。
中國的許多城市都上調了最低工資標準:北京的工資上漲20%,上海10%,廣東省19%。上海市長說這是“理性的收入分配”。可是奇怪的是,這似乎與勞動力緊缺有關(對年輕工人的需求在增加)。
連續30年來,中國保持著每年10%的GDP增長,但上漲的價格使它開始脫離低成本制造市場。據Liberum資本公司報告稱,除了馬來西亞和泰國,中國的勞動力價格是其他亞洲新興經濟體中最高的。
這無疑提醒了我們人口的力量——多年的獨生子女政策造成了中國社會嚴重的不平衡。中國的撫養率達40%,目前這個數字很好,說明中國有60%的人口屬于勞動力。但是隨著獨生子女長大,取代他們的雙親成為勞動力,這個數字會迅速變化。到2040年變成50%,2050年將超過60%。這些可憐的獨生子女將要贍養雙親、撫養子女。
然而,從青年社會向老年社會的轉變影響的不僅是中國經濟,它也會影響到中國股市。
法國興業銀行曾做過一項關于美國的退休率和美國股市的價格|收益率的圖表,發現兩者具有很強的相關性。當退休人數不多時,股票的市場價很高。當退休人數很多時,股票的價格下降。房價亦是如此:勞動力增加,退休人員減少時,房價上漲。日本的例子正好說明了這點:二十世紀90年代,勞動力比重下降,正好是日本20年經濟蕭條的開始。
這對中國來說是個不好的兆頭。根據渣打銀行預測,2014年開始,中國的勞動力與退休人口的比重將急速變化。到了2030年,中國人年齡的中位數將是41歲,美國是40歲。這是我們要遠離中國股市的又一例證。(蘇亭 董菁)
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China could price itself out of all sorts of markets
By Merryn Somerset Webb
Published: January 28 2011 18:08 | Last updated: January 28 2011 18:08
On the train a few weeks ago, I sat next to a burly garment supplier. He spent the entire trip – when not yelling at his ex-wife-to-be on the phone (“you made your bed love, you lie in it”) – calling clients and telling them that their prices were going up. Those who asked questions were told that factory prices were rising in China and that they were taking the hit. End of story.
I told this to a City audience a few days later during a debate with Matt Ridley on whether optimism or pessimism is the correct approach to the future – only to hear a voice piping up from the floor telling me I knew nothing about inflation in China.
This interruption came from a young dress designer at the back. She told us that the factories she uses would bump up their prices every couple of months: these days, if you don’t take the price you are given on the spot, it goes up in 24 hours. That’s real inflation.
But the interesting bit was that the fast-moving prices have prompted her to do her sums again: she is moving her production back to Europe. It won’t cost less, but it certainly won’t cost any more. It will also allow her to keep an eye on quality – which has apparently been falling as fast as prices are rising at those Chinese factories.
For more on how fast prices are rising, look at www.shanghaiscrap.com, where you can see pictures of packs of instant noodles in a Shanghai convenience store. According to the blogger, the clerks aren’t bothering to print new price labels for the noodles as prices rise; they simply “cross them out and write in the new [substantially higher] ones”. That’s also real inflation.
This is anecdotal evidence but it suggests that, given the wage pressures building behind it, the consumer price index in China might, just might, be a tad higher than the official number of 4.6 per cent suggests.
It also chimes with news of minimum wage rises in Chinese cities: pay is about to rise 20 per cent in Beijing, 10 per cent in Shanghai and 19 per cent in Guangdong. Shanghai’s mayor says this is about “rational income distribution”. But odds are it has something to do with staff shortages (young Chinese workers are becoming more demanding) and the odd strike as well.
Either way, you could make a reasonable argument that 30 years into its 10 per cent a year GDP expansion, China is beginning to price itself out of the low-cost manufacturing market. Leave out Malaysia and Thailand, says a note from Liberum Capital, and the average worker in China is now more expensive than the average worker in any other emerging Asian economy.
One thing all this should remind us about is the power of demographics. Years of one-child policies have left the Chinese population nastily unbalanced. Today, its dependency ratio hovers around 40 per cent. That’s good – it means 60 per cent of the population is of working age. But as the only children reach working age and their parents retire, this ratio changes fast: by 2040 it will be well over 50 per cent and by 2050, over 60 per cent. If employers think young Chinese workers are stroppy now, they should wait until the poor things are trying to support two parents each, as well as their own children.
However, this shift from a nation of the youngish to a nation of the old won’t just affect China’s economy. It will, if things work out as they have in the US, affect its stock market, too.
Société Générale has a neat chart that plots the growth rate of retirees in the US against the Shiller price/earnings ratio for the US equity market. And guess what? It’s a pretty good correlation. When not many people are retiring, the stock market gets more expensive (more people are saving for retirement). When lots are retiring, it gets cheaper (people take their money out). The same goes for house prices: working people upsize, retirees downsize so the more retirees you have knocking around, the less likely it is that house prices will rise.
Anyone looking for corroboration of the argument need only look to Japan where the working age population as a percentage of the total population began to fall in the early 1990s – a time that marked the start of a 20-year grind-down in domestic asset prices.
That doesn’t bode well for US asset prices over the next couple of decades given that the working population as a percentage of the total population, having risen from 1990 through to 2008, is now set to fall until some time in the region of 2030. It bodes really badly for the Chinese stock market where the ratio of working-age people to retirees will shift much faster – starting in 2014, according to Standard Chartered. By 2030, the median age in the US is forecast to be 40. In China it will be 41. Just one more reason to stay out of the Chinese stock market.
Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of Money Week and previously worked as a stockbroker. The views expressed in her column are personal.
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英國《理財周刊》(Money Week)主編莫裏‧薩默塞特‧韋布(Merryn Somerset Webb) 日前在英國《金融時報》(Finance Times)發文稱,中國的價格上漲使得中國生產優勢不再,而人口問題使中國的股市也不容樂觀。他勸人們遠離中國市場。文章摘要如下:
幾周前,我在火車上遇到了一位身材魁梧的服裝制作商,他整個旅程都是在不斷給客戶打電話,告知他們衣服漲價了。有些人問為什麼,他說,因為中國的廠家價格上漲了,他們也受到了影響。
中國的許多城市都上調了最低工資標準:北京的工資上漲20%,上海10%,廣東省19%。上海市長說這是“理性的收入分配”。可是奇怪的是,這似乎與勞動力緊缺有關(對年輕工人的需求在增加)。
連續30年來,中國保持著每年10%的GDP增長,但上漲的價格使它開始脫離低成本制造市場。據Liberum資本公司報告稱,除了馬來西亞和泰國,中國的勞動力價格是其他亞洲新興經濟體中最高的。
這無疑提醒了我們人口的力量——多年的獨生子女政策造成了中國社會嚴重的不平衡。中國的撫養率達40%,目前這個數字很好,說明中國有60%的人口屬于勞動力。但是隨著獨生子女長大,取代他們的雙親成為勞動力,這個數字會迅速變化。到2040年變成50%,2050年將超過60%。這些可憐的獨生子女將要贍養雙親、撫養子女。
然而,從青年社會向老年社會的轉變影響的不僅是中國經濟,它也會影響到中國股市。
法國興業銀行曾做過一項關于美國的退休率和美國股市的價格|收益率的圖表,發現兩者具有很強的相關性。當退休人數不多時,股票的市場價很高。當退休人數很多時,股票的價格下降。房價亦是如此:勞動力增加,退休人員減少時,房價上漲。日本的例子正好說明了這點:二十世紀90年代,勞動力比重下降,正好是日本20年經濟蕭條的開始。
這對中國來說是個不好的兆頭。根據渣打銀行預測,2014年開始,中國的勞動力與退休人口的比重將急速變化。到了2030年,中國人年齡的中位數將是41歲,美國是40歲。這是我們要遠離中國股市的又一例證。(蘇亭 董菁)
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China could price itself out of all sorts of markets
By Merryn Somerset Webb
Published: January 28 2011 18:08 | Last updated: January 28 2011 18:08
On the train a few weeks ago, I sat next to a burly garment supplier. He spent the entire trip – when not yelling at his ex-wife-to-be on the phone (“you made your bed love, you lie in it”) – calling clients and telling them that their prices were going up. Those who asked questions were told that factory prices were rising in China and that they were taking the hit. End of story.
I told this to a City audience a few days later during a debate with Matt Ridley on whether optimism or pessimism is the correct approach to the future – only to hear a voice piping up from the floor telling me I knew nothing about inflation in China.
This interruption came from a young dress designer at the back. She told us that the factories she uses would bump up their prices every couple of months: these days, if you don’t take the price you are given on the spot, it goes up in 24 hours. That’s real inflation.
But the interesting bit was that the fast-moving prices have prompted her to do her sums again: she is moving her production back to Europe. It won’t cost less, but it certainly won’t cost any more. It will also allow her to keep an eye on quality – which has apparently been falling as fast as prices are rising at those Chinese factories.
For more on how fast prices are rising, look at www.shanghaiscrap.com, where you can see pictures of packs of instant noodles in a Shanghai convenience store. According to the blogger, the clerks aren’t bothering to print new price labels for the noodles as prices rise; they simply “cross them out and write in the new [substantially higher] ones”. That’s also real inflation.
This is anecdotal evidence but it suggests that, given the wage pressures building behind it, the consumer price index in China might, just might, be a tad higher than the official number of 4.6 per cent suggests.
It also chimes with news of minimum wage rises in Chinese cities: pay is about to rise 20 per cent in Beijing, 10 per cent in Shanghai and 19 per cent in Guangdong. Shanghai’s mayor says this is about “rational income distribution”. But odds are it has something to do with staff shortages (young Chinese workers are becoming more demanding) and the odd strike as well.
Either way, you could make a reasonable argument that 30 years into its 10 per cent a year GDP expansion, China is beginning to price itself out of the low-cost manufacturing market. Leave out Malaysia and Thailand, says a note from Liberum Capital, and the average worker in China is now more expensive than the average worker in any other emerging Asian economy.
One thing all this should remind us about is the power of demographics. Years of one-child policies have left the Chinese population nastily unbalanced. Today, its dependency ratio hovers around 40 per cent. That’s good – it means 60 per cent of the population is of working age. But as the only children reach working age and their parents retire, this ratio changes fast: by 2040 it will be well over 50 per cent and by 2050, over 60 per cent. If employers think young Chinese workers are stroppy now, they should wait until the poor things are trying to support two parents each, as well as their own children.
However, this shift from a nation of the youngish to a nation of the old won’t just affect China’s economy. It will, if things work out as they have in the US, affect its stock market, too.
Société Générale has a neat chart that plots the growth rate of retirees in the US against the Shiller price/earnings ratio for the US equity market. And guess what? It’s a pretty good correlation. When not many people are retiring, the stock market gets more expensive (more people are saving for retirement). When lots are retiring, it gets cheaper (people take their money out). The same goes for house prices: working people upsize, retirees downsize so the more retirees you have knocking around, the less likely it is that house prices will rise.
Anyone looking for corroboration of the argument need only look to Japan where the working age population as a percentage of the total population began to fall in the early 1990s – a time that marked the start of a 20-year grind-down in domestic asset prices.
That doesn’t bode well for US asset prices over the next couple of decades given that the working population as a percentage of the total population, having risen from 1990 through to 2008, is now set to fall until some time in the region of 2030. It bodes really badly for the Chinese stock market where the ratio of working-age people to retirees will shift much faster – starting in 2014, according to Standard Chartered. By 2030, the median age in the US is forecast to be 40. In China it will be 41. Just one more reason to stay out of the Chinese stock market.
Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of Money Week and previously worked as a stockbroker. The views expressed in her column are personal.
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屏東大學文化創意產業
葉晉嘉 助理教授
研究室:五育樓1402室 電話:08-7226141轉22300(師培中心實習組)、35757(研究室) E-mail:scorpioball@mail.npue.edu.tw 教學網頁:http://blog.xuite.net/scorpio.ball/ 國科會個人網站:http://researcher.nsc.gov.tw/scorpioball/ 現職:
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專長: 文化產業分析,區域與都市規劃,政策分析與評估,城鄉研究
主要研究興趣:都市治理與行銷,文化消費行為研究,創意城市,全球化議題
授課科目:統計學、經濟學、文化經濟學、文化產業踏查(II) : 都會、全球化與地方發展、城市治理與行銷、文化園區規劃與經營實務 、調查研究與資料分析
榮譽與獎勵:
主要研究興趣:都市治理與行銷,文化消費行為研究,創意城市,全球化議題
授課科目:統計學、經濟學、文化經濟學、文化產業踏查(II) : 都會、全球化與地方發展、城市治理與行銷、文化園區規劃與經營實務 、調查研究與資料分析
榮譽與獎勵:
- 2006,管理學門論文審查與修改技巧研討會論文審查實做競賽第一。
- 2003,中山大學公共事務管理研究所優秀研究生獎學金。
- 2001,都市計畫技師高考及格。
- 1998,龍騰論文獎。
著作目錄:
期刊論文
- 葉晉嘉(2010)。2009世界運動會授權商品消費行為分析,城市發展,專刊,104-126。
- 葉晉嘉(2010)。各國創意城市指標的比較性研究,城市發展,9,111-144。
- 吳濟華、葉晉嘉、蔡源培(2007)。臺北捷運通車後車站周邊土地價格變動之實證分析,土地經濟年刊,18,1-26。
- 葉晉嘉、翁興利、吳濟華(2007)。德菲法與模糊德菲法之比較研究,調查研究-方法與應用,21,31-58。
- 吳濟華、葉晉嘉、朱俊德(2006)。地方永續發展跨域治理操作機制研究--以高高屏地區為例,城市發展,1,28-53。
- 葉晉嘉、劉麗娟、吳濟華(2006)。運用資料包絡分析法評量台灣地區健康城市度之研究,健康城市學刊,4,129-140。
- 吳濟華、葉晉嘉、周佳儀(2005)。高雄都會區女性住宅消費行為意向之研究,住宅學報,14(1),67-84。(TSSCI)
- 張瑞玲、葉晉嘉、陳台晟(2005)。全球手機產業生產分工模式之研究:世界體系觀點,華人前瞻研究,1(1),175-192。
專書及專書論文
- 葉晉嘉(2009)。「城市經濟的活化與轉型─從全球化與永續發展的新思維出發」,載於吳英明、薛昭義(主編),城市致富學,77-86。高雄市:高雄市立空中大學。
- 葉晉嘉(2008)。「台灣城鄉價值變遷及其對都市治理之意涵」,中山大學公共事務管理研究所博士論文,未出版,高雄市。
- 葉晉嘉(1998)。「應用模糊理論於公共政策之研究—改良式模糊德爾菲法」,中興大學公共政策研究所碩士論文,未出版,台北市(龍騰論文獎)。
研討會論文
- 葉晉嘉(2010)。「宜居城市治理績效評估之研究」,2010年都市計劃學會、區域科學學會、地區發展學會、住宅學會聯合年會暨論文研討會,台北市政治大學大公企中心,2010/12/11。
- 葉晉嘉(2009)。「創意城市治理指標之研究」,台灣公共行政與公共事務系所聯合會,全球化下新公共管理趨勢與挑戰-理論與實踐研討會,高雄中山大學,2009/5/23-24。
- 葉晉嘉(2009)。「城市創意經濟初探」,城市生根與國際深耕學術論壇,高雄市立空中大學,2009/2/11。
- 葉晉嘉(2008)。「台灣城鄉價值變遷實證研究」,2008年中華民國都市計劃學會、區域科學學會、住宅學會、地區發展學會聯合年會暨論文研討會,台北台北大學,2008/12/13。
- 吳濟華、葉晉嘉(2008)。「台灣城鄉價值變遷及其對都市治理之意涵」,台灣公共行政與公共事務系所聯合會,夥伴關係與永續發展國際學術研討會,台中東海大學,2008/5/24-25。
- 吳濟華、柯志昌、葉晉嘉(2007)。「區域治理與治理機制探討-高高屏地區個案分析」,地方自治與民主發展:台灣經驗的省思研討會,台中東海大學,2007/6/16。
- 葉晉嘉、吳濟華(2006)。「城市區域、城際競合與全球商品鏈」,海峽兩岸第五屆公共治理與行政發展研討會,廣州中山大學,2006/11/3。
- 劉麗娟、葉晉嘉(2006)。「以發展地方產業觀點評估高雄地區多元就業開發方案績效」,高高屏地區後高鐵時代就業引進、勞力需求與職業訓練公共論壇,高雄中山大學,2006/6/26。
- 吳濟華、葉晉嘉、劉麗娟(2006)。「台灣地區公民文化與都市發展之關連分析」,全球化與行政管理研討會,桃園開南大學公共事務管理學系暨研究所。2006/5/22。
- 葉晉嘉、劉麗娟(2005)。「運用資料包絡分析法評量台灣地區城市健康度之研究」,2005年台灣健康城市國際研討會,台南成功大學,2005/10/14-16。
- Wu, Jih-Hwa, Yeh, Ching-Chia, Huang, Pao-Hsuan, Tasi, Yuan-Pei.(2005). AnAnalysis on Change of Land Price nearby the MRT Stations in Taipei City. 10thAsian Real Estate Society (AsRES) International Conference, 18-21 July 2005,Sydney, Australia.
- Wu, Jih-Hwa, Huang, Pao-Hsuan, Yeh, Ching-Chia, Tasi, Yuan-Pei.(2005).Analysis on Firm Clustering around MRT Stations in Taipei City. 10th AsianReal Estate Society (AsRES) International Conference, 18-21 July 2005, Sydney,Australia.
- 吳濟華、葉晉嘉(2005)。「地方永續發展規劃之跨域治理機制研究--以高高屏地區為例」,第二屆地方治理與城鄉發展學術研討會,新竹玄奘大學,2005/6/4。
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(中央社記者鄭景雯台北4日電)主導2012年英國倫敦奧運場館的台灣建築師游邑,在台灣念文化大學二年級時,就考到建築師執照。能競標到倫敦奧運場館規劃設計,他說「想設計出讓民眾到過就忘不了的場館」。
出生台灣宜蘭農家子弟的游邑,國中時念放牛班,高中念宜蘭農工,隨後考上專科,再插大就讀文化大學建築暨都市設計學系。大二就考到國家建築師高考執照,成為當時台灣有史以來最年輕的建築師,大學畢業後受學校老師邀約,回到母校當講師。
原以為會在台灣建築界深根,但游邑表示,台灣業者往往希望能將建築土地面積利用到極致,無法讓設計師有發揮的空間。30歲時,他決定放下在台灣的事業,到嚮往已久的英國首席A.A設計學院就讀。游邑說,「那是第1次出國,也是第1次坐飛機,內心感到恐懼」。
在英國首席A.A設計學院期間,游邑認為學校讓他開拓不同的設計視野。「用策略性的規劃設計,可以讓開發案更成功」,游邑指的策略性,包括規劃方式、不需要讓開發案過度開發就可達到雙贏,讓使用者可獲得更多休閒的空間,開發者也能獲得最大的利潤。
英國A.A設計學院畢業後,游邑進入英國HOK建築師事務所工作,即便在台灣已經可以領導一個團隊執行建築設計案,但到了全球知名的建築事務所工作,一切從基層做起,短時間內就做到資深建築師,還讓游邑與設計團隊奪下2012倫敦奧運場館整體設計規劃。
游邑表示,面對許多「大師級」建築設計師同為他的競爭者,設計之前,他先搜尋歷屆奧運場館的設計圖,認為要突破「大師」的設計,不如先從倫敦最基礎的文化背景找起。
「在英國處處可看到花園,就連住家也都一定要有庭院」,游邑認為,英國人重視在寬闊空間的休閒,與其建造一個突破性的建築,還不如設計一個讓每個觀光客到過都忘不了的場館。他把奧運場館規劃成大型的花園,要讓來參觀的民眾都能像是參與大型的派對。
游邑主張綠色建築,不將地面上挖出來的土運送到土石場,反而堆成山坡,以空中鳥瞰整個場館有如流線型的波動,對民眾而言,也能享有最寬廣的綠色空間。
因為獨特的設計,英國女皇還邀請游邑與設計團隊吃飯。游邑表示,和英國女皇吃飯前,還得先受皇家吃飯的禮儀訓練,例如和英國女皇問好等禮節。游邑說,「很多英國人一輩子都沒見過英國女皇,更別說一個台灣人可以和英國女皇一起吃飯」。
2009年游邑受邀加入英國SAID四方國際聯合建築師事務所,去年決定結束在英國的工作,回到台灣定居,並且成為四方國際聯合建築師事務所在台灣的負責人。
他期望未來能放眼中國建築市場,實踐「策略性的規劃設計」,讓使用者和業者都能享受雙贏的建築空間。1000204
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(中央社記者鄭景雯台北4日電)主導2012年英國倫敦奧運場館的台灣建築師游邑,在台灣念文化大學二年級時,就考到建築師執照。能競標到倫敦奧運場館規劃設計,他說「想設計出讓民眾到過就忘不了的場館」。
出生台灣宜蘭農家子弟的游邑,國中時念放牛班,高中念宜蘭農工,隨後考上專科,再插大就讀文化大學建築暨都市設計學系。大二就考到國家建築師高考執照,成為當時台灣有史以來最年輕的建築師,大學畢業後受學校老師邀約,回到母校當講師。
原以為會在台灣建築界深根,但游邑表示,台灣業者往往希望能將建築土地面積利用到極致,無法讓設計師有發揮的空間。30歲時,他決定放下在台灣的事業,到嚮往已久的英國首席A.A設計學院就讀。游邑說,「那是第1次出國,也是第1次坐飛機,內心感到恐懼」。
在英國首席A.A設計學院期間,游邑認為學校讓他開拓不同的設計視野。「用策略性的規劃設計,可以讓開發案更成功」,游邑指的策略性,包括規劃方式、不需要讓開發案過度開發就可達到雙贏,讓使用者可獲得更多休閒的空間,開發者也能獲得最大的利潤。
英國A.A設計學院畢業後,游邑進入英國HOK建築師事務所工作,即便在台灣已經可以領導一個團隊執行建築設計案,但到了全球知名的建築事務所工作,一切從基層做起,短時間內就做到資深建築師,還讓游邑與設計團隊奪下2012倫敦奧運場館整體設計規劃。
游邑表示,面對許多「大師級」建築設計師同為他的競爭者,設計之前,他先搜尋歷屆奧運場館的設計圖,認為要突破「大師」的設計,不如先從倫敦最基礎的文化背景找起。
「在英國處處可看到花園,就連住家也都一定要有庭院」,游邑認為,英國人重視在寬闊空間的休閒,與其建造一個突破性的建築,還不如設計一個讓每個觀光客到過都忘不了的場館。他把奧運場館規劃成大型的花園,要讓來參觀的民眾都能像是參與大型的派對。
游邑主張綠色建築,不將地面上挖出來的土運送到土石場,反而堆成山坡,以空中鳥瞰整個場館有如流線型的波動,對民眾而言,也能享有最寬廣的綠色空間。
因為獨特的設計,英國女皇還邀請游邑與設計團隊吃飯。游邑表示,和英國女皇吃飯前,還得先受皇家吃飯的禮儀訓練,例如和英國女皇問好等禮節。游邑說,「很多英國人一輩子都沒見過英國女皇,更別說一個台灣人可以和英國女皇一起吃飯」。
2009年游邑受邀加入英國SAID四方國際聯合建築師事務所,去年決定結束在英國的工作,回到台灣定居,並且成為四方國際聯合建築師事務所在台灣的負責人。
他期望未來能放眼中國建築市場,實踐「策略性的規劃設計」,讓使用者和業者都能享受雙贏的建築空間。1000204
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英國議員擬提案保留留學生PSW簽證
原定於1月31日公佈的包括取消PSW(Post-study-work)簽證在內的調整學生簽證體系的提案的徵詢意見結果或將發生改變。據BBC 英倫網報導,就在PSW簽證命運岌岌可危之際,英國議會跨黨派中國事務小組提出了挽救新建議,具體內容為保留PSW簽證,並將時間調整為留英碩士學位畢業 生提供一年工作簽證,而博士學位畢業生的簽證時間則可為兩年。 BBC英倫網的報導稱,據相關人士透露,1月13日英國議會跨黨派中國事務小組正在起草一份遊說文件準備於本週呈交聯合政府。文件提出的新計劃建議政府保 留允許海外學生取得學位後在英工作的PSW簽證,特別是要維護小組最為關注的中國留學生的簽證權利。新計劃建議具體政策可以調整為:為留英碩士學位畢業生 提供一年工作簽證,而博士學位畢業生的簽證時間則可為兩年。
而現行的PSW簽證政策為,對於在英國獲得學位的學生,無論是本科學位、碩士學位還是博士學位,都可以獲得兩年的工作簽證。
據一位不願透露姓名的英國高校教育工作者透露,簽證政策調整的諮詢期內,一些海外學生和英國高校向英國議會跨黨派中國事務小組表示了對該政策修改的 極度關心。英國高校擔心取消PSW將極大影響海外學生的招生工作。而學生則認為,沒有了兩年的工作簽證自己在英國留學獲得的效益將大受影響。
面對來自各方意見,英國議會跨黨派中國事務小組對海外學生、英國高校以及政府相關部門進行了調研。
英國工商管理碩士協會1月13日舉行的關於政府移民政策諮詢會議提供的數據顯示,2009年有46.8萬名海外學生進入英國學習,英國內政部入境署 估算,這些海外學生對英國經濟的直接貢獻達83億英鎊。而會議對27所具有資質的英國高校商學院的調查顯示,25所學院的學生非常關心在畢業後能否在英國 從事穩定工作。
另外,英國政府國際學生事務部向英國內政事務委員會提交的關於T4學生簽證政策修改意見報告中,特別提到關於政府計劃取消PSW簽證的消息已經遭到 海外學生的強烈反對。特別是已經耗資數万英鎊在英國學習並準備在英國積累工作經驗的海外學生,將會質疑自己在英國取得的學位到底有多大價值。
基於上述調查,英國議會跨黨派中國事務小組將把各部門的調研報告進行歸納整理,然後提出自己的提案。
英政府擬取消留學生畢業求職PSW簽證限制移民人數
2010年11月25日 11:10 來源:中國新聞網
英國現有留學政策將於2011年初發生重大改變
中新網11月25日電 據英國BBC英倫網報道,就讀非學位課程海外生簽證收緊、PSW簽證即將取消。英國聯合政府這些新宣佈對中國留學生殺傷力到底有多大?
為了實現限制移民人數的政策,英國聯合政府準備拿留學生開刀了。
英國內政大臣特雷莎-梅(Theresa May)當地時間11月23日宣佈,政府有意限制海外學生來英國就讀非學位課程。
她同時宣佈,政府計劃取消留學生在英國大學畢業後的PSW(Post-Study-Work)工作簽證。
內政部表示,有關減少留學簽證的提案,將進行為期八周的諮詢期,2011年一月將宣佈具體內容。
內政部新聞官Jamie對BBC英倫網表示,目前,內政部所有的簽證政策和程式都還沒有進行任何改變。
一切簽證申請都基於記點積分制系統的程式進行操作。
在2011年年初政府宣佈新的政策之前,現在所有的政策都還保持不變。相關資訊可以在內政部的網站上進行詳細查詢。
留學生遭殃
對於大家關心的政府即將收緊“小留學生”簽證的問題記者今天採訪了英國教育與簽證中心的首席執行官郝斐。
他告訴BBC英倫網,目前,英國很多college水準的高中已經正式通知各留學仲介機構,對於今後就讀大學以上等級院校的海外學生,即便年齡在18歲以下,也必須提供相應的安全英語測試成績。
之前的政策對一些年齡小于18歲,到英國就讀大學水準課程的孩子是否提供安全英語測試成績沒有明確規定,但是目前的新政策已經完全堵死了這個漏洞。
對於來英國就讀大學本科學位課程的同學,新政策目前還沒有明顯的影響。
而對於聯合政府即將取消PSW簽證,郝斐認為,這在很大程度上將影響來英就讀碩士課程的中國學生數量。
因為英國碩士課程本身就極短,加上中國針對“海歸”薪資水準的調查顯示,在國外有一到三年工作經驗的“海歸”比畢業後立即回國就業的學生薪資高出不少。因此,取消PSW,英國碩士還有多大吸引力很成疑問。
郝斐認為,頻繁更換這一政策對學生也是不公平的。
不少教育界人士建議將PSW簽證的時間改為一年比較合理,而不是完全取消此類簽證。
(責任編輯:袁志麗)
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英國現有留學政策將於2011年初發生重大改變
中新網11月25日電 據英國BBC英倫網報道,就讀非學位課程海外生簽證收緊、PSW簽證即將取消。英國聯合政府這些新宣佈對中國留學生殺傷力到底有多大?
為了實現限制移民人數的政策,英國聯合政府準備拿留學生開刀了。
英國內政大臣特雷莎-梅(Theresa May)當地時間11月23日宣佈,政府有意限制海外學生來英國就讀非學位課程。
她同時宣佈,政府計劃取消留學生在英國大學畢業後的PSW(Post-Study-Work)工作簽證。
內政部表示,有關減少留學簽證的提案,將進行為期八周的諮詢期,2011年一月將宣佈具體內容。
內政部新聞官Jamie對BBC英倫網表示,目前,內政部所有的簽證政策和程式都還沒有進行任何改變。
一切簽證申請都基於記點積分制系統的程式進行操作。
在2011年年初政府宣佈新的政策之前,現在所有的政策都還保持不變。相關資訊可以在內政部的網站上進行詳細查詢。
留學生遭殃
對於大家關心的政府即將收緊“小留學生”簽證的問題記者今天採訪了英國教育與簽證中心的首席執行官郝斐。
他告訴BBC英倫網,目前,英國很多college水準的高中已經正式通知各留學仲介機構,對於今後就讀大學以上等級院校的海外學生,即便年齡在18歲以下,也必須提供相應的安全英語測試成績。
之前的政策對一些年齡小于18歲,到英國就讀大學水準課程的孩子是否提供安全英語測試成績沒有明確規定,但是目前的新政策已經完全堵死了這個漏洞。
對於來英國就讀大學本科學位課程的同學,新政策目前還沒有明顯的影響。
而對於聯合政府即將取消PSW簽證,郝斐認為,這在很大程度上將影響來英就讀碩士課程的中國學生數量。
因為英國碩士課程本身就極短,加上中國針對“海歸”薪資水準的調查顯示,在國外有一到三年工作經驗的“海歸”比畢業後立即回國就業的學生薪資高出不少。因此,取消PSW,英國碩士還有多大吸引力很成疑問。
郝斐認為,頻繁更換這一政策對學生也是不公平的。
不少教育界人士建議將PSW簽證的時間改為一年比較合理,而不是完全取消此類簽證。
(責任編輯:袁志麗)
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英國留學PSW簽證審核趨嚴
2010年08月03日 15:31:47
PSW簽證讓留英畢業生有了施展自己才華的機會。但是最近的情況顯示,PSW簽證越來越嚴格,令有的同學憂心忡忡。我就此收集了有關各方觀點,在這個小係列中與大家分享。
近年來,留學浪潮席卷中國,赴英國讀書成了許多中國學子的夢想。
英國素來以學制短、教學質量高受到中國學生乃至世界學生的歡迎。很多同學拿到學位之後都希望能夠留在英國工作一段時間。
幾年前,蘇格蘭首先開始實行Fresh Talent簽證政策,給正規大學課程的外國畢業生一年的簽證,這期間可以隨意找工作。
沒過多久,這一政策從蘇格蘭擴展到英國全國,而且簽證期限延長到了兩年,名為Post study work,即PSW簽證。
很多同學畢業之後,都打算申請鼓勵畢業生在英國找工作的PSW,post study work簽證。
這一政策受到廣大畢業生的歡迎,也成了吸引新生來英國讀書的一大因素。
收緊政策
雖然最近兩年學生簽證被收緊,簽證費用節節升高,審核程序和各項要求變化也很頻繁,但是PSW簽證總的來說沒有發生大的變化。
然而,最近很多同學反映,這一政策的要求越來越嚴格,比如,規定申請者在過去的三個月內銀行賬戶中每一天都要有至少8百英鎊的存款。
哪怕有幾天,甚至幾個小時存款不足就可能被拒簽。這使得很多同學憂心忡忡,有的甚至不做嘗試,畢業後直接回中國。
英國保守黨自民黨聯合政府上臺以來,已經開始對歐盟以外移民實行臨時性配額制度,並且對長期收緊的程度展開咨詢。(摘自:英國BBC英倫網;文/子川)
近年來,留學浪潮席卷中國,赴英國讀書成了許多中國學子的夢想。
英國素來以學制短、教學質量高受到中國學生乃至世界學生的歡迎。很多同學拿到學位之後都希望能夠留在英國工作一段時間。
幾年前,蘇格蘭首先開始實行Fresh Talent簽證政策,給正規大學課程的外國畢業生一年的簽證,這期間可以隨意找工作。
沒過多久,這一政策從蘇格蘭擴展到英國全國,而且簽證期限延長到了兩年,名為Post study work,即PSW簽證。
很多同學畢業之後,都打算申請鼓勵畢業生在英國找工作的PSW,post study work簽證。
這一政策受到廣大畢業生的歡迎,也成了吸引新生來英國讀書的一大因素。
收緊政策
雖然最近兩年學生簽證被收緊,簽證費用節節升高,審核程序和各項要求變化也很頻繁,但是PSW簽證總的來說沒有發生大的變化。
然而,最近很多同學反映,這一政策的要求越來越嚴格,比如,規定申請者在過去的三個月內銀行賬戶中每一天都要有至少8百英鎊的存款。
哪怕有幾天,甚至幾個小時存款不足就可能被拒簽。這使得很多同學憂心忡忡,有的甚至不做嘗試,畢業後直接回中國。
英國保守黨自民黨聯合政府上臺以來,已經開始對歐盟以外移民實行臨時性配額制度,並且對長期收緊的程度展開咨詢。(摘自:英國BBC英倫網;文/子川)
Oxford and Cambridge to join £9,000 club on fees
Students whose family income is below £25,000 would pay £6,000 and receive a maintenance bursary of up to £1,625
- Jessica Shepherd, education correspondent
- The Guardian,
- Article history
Senior managers at Oxford and Cambridge universities are intent on charging £9,000 a year in tuition fees, the maximum allowed, it has emerged.
A consultation paper shows Cambridge wants to almost triple fees to £9,000 as soon as it can in autumn next year. The university will charge the maximum of £3,375 for this autumn.
Students whose family income is below £25,000 would pay £6,000 and receive a maintenance bursary of up to £1,625, under plans from Cambridge's working group on fees, published internally for consultation. Means testing will taper this £3,000 reduction to zero when family income exceeds £42,000.
Oxford's pro-vice-chancellor, Tony Monaco, has said fees of less than £8,000 would lose the university money because of national cuts to teaching and other grants. Hhe told a Congregation, a formal meeting of senior members of the university, that Oxford subsidised undergraduates by £80m.
"That is already straining research and infrastructure ... Were we to charge £9,000, the additional income would be £14m a year." This would be used to improve outreach activities and waive fees for the poorest students.
The university calculates that to waivefees for the poorest by £3,000, would be the equivalent of charging all undergraduates £8,500. Oxford will make its decision on fees in March.
David Willetts, the universities minister, has said fees of £9,000 will be allowed only in "exceptional circumstances". MPs voted to raise tuition fees in December, after the Lib Dems pledged in their manifesto to scrap fees. The government loans students the fees until they graduate and are earning £21,000 a year.
Aaron Porter, president of the National Union of Students, said: "We can now expect a race to the top now as universities rush to gain kudos by joining the '£9,000 group' as quickly as possible. How long before the most expensive start asking for the freedom to charge even more?"
The Cambridge report argues that even at £9,000, the university is still "carrying the burden of a significant loss per student … To charge less than the maximum would be fiscally irresponsible. Most if not all of our peers will charge the maximum."
A university spokesman said: "This report has been published online for consultation … It follows due consideration by a working party made up of senior academic, college and student representatives."
Universities are expected to raise fees to at least £6,000. They have to submit their plans to the government's Office for Fair Access, which can decline proposals.
New universities say they will be forced to raise fees to more than £6,000 because of cuts to teaching funds, and are concerned that students from low-income families will not be able to afford them.
A consultation paper shows Cambridge wants to almost triple fees to £9,000 as soon as it can in autumn next year. The university will charge the maximum of £3,375 for this autumn.
Students whose family income is below £25,000 would pay £6,000 and receive a maintenance bursary of up to £1,625, under plans from Cambridge's working group on fees, published internally for consultation. Means testing will taper this £3,000 reduction to zero when family income exceeds £42,000.
Oxford's pro-vice-chancellor, Tony Monaco, has said fees of less than £8,000 would lose the university money because of national cuts to teaching and other grants. Hhe told a Congregation, a formal meeting of senior members of the university, that Oxford subsidised undergraduates by £80m.
"That is already straining research and infrastructure ... Were we to charge £9,000, the additional income would be £14m a year." This would be used to improve outreach activities and waive fees for the poorest students.
The university calculates that to waivefees for the poorest by £3,000, would be the equivalent of charging all undergraduates £8,500. Oxford will make its decision on fees in March.
David Willetts, the universities minister, has said fees of £9,000 will be allowed only in "exceptional circumstances". MPs voted to raise tuition fees in December, after the Lib Dems pledged in their manifesto to scrap fees. The government loans students the fees until they graduate and are earning £21,000 a year.
Aaron Porter, president of the National Union of Students, said: "We can now expect a race to the top now as universities rush to gain kudos by joining the '£9,000 group' as quickly as possible. How long before the most expensive start asking for the freedom to charge even more?"
The Cambridge report argues that even at £9,000, the university is still "carrying the burden of a significant loss per student … To charge less than the maximum would be fiscally irresponsible. Most if not all of our peers will charge the maximum."
A university spokesman said: "This report has been published online for consultation … It follows due consideration by a working party made up of senior academic, college and student representatives."
Universities are expected to raise fees to at least £6,000. They have to submit their plans to the government's Office for Fair Access, which can decline proposals.
New universities say they will be forced to raise fees to more than £6,000 because of cuts to teaching funds, and are concerned that students from low-income families will not be able to afford them.
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