Countability not answerability? Accountability in Hong Kong and Singapore universities

Countability not answerability? Accountability in Hong Kong and Singapore universities

• Currie, Jan Centre for Social and Community Research, Murdoch University
• Vidovich, Lesley Graduate School of Education, University of Western, Australia
• Yang, Rui Faculty of Education, Monash University

Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 28(1), 67-85, 2008

Routledge

2008

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QE Post-Secondary Education

Governance Foreign Countries Accountability Comparative Education Regional Schools Case Studies Educational Assessment Educational Indicators Educational Policy Policy Analysis Benchmarking Higher Education Hong Kong Singapore

• Hong Kong
• Singapore

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Singapore and Hong Kong are vying to be the principal educational hub for the Asia-Pacific region and have begun to compete with Australia, Britain, Canada and the USA in providing cross-border education. Although these four Anglo-American countries still dominate cross-border education, Singapore and Hong Kong hope to make inroads into this export market and compete on the global stage. To create "world-class" universities, Singapore and Hong Kong have introduced quality assurance mechanisms, diversified funding sources, and restructured their university governance systems. This article compares the accountability measures introduced into Hong Kong and Singapore universities, and the responses of academics and administrators to these measures. The results indicate that both countries introduced greater autonomy as they augmented accountability for their universities, and the term "decentralised centralism" describes the kind of government control exerted in these Asian universities in the twenty-first century.
[Copyright of Asia Pacific Journal of Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02188790701845972]

• English

Journal Articles

• 02188791

• 10.1080/02188790701845972

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2010-09-08