Varieties of regulatory regimes in Asia: The liberalization of the higher education market and changing governance in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia

Varieties of regulatory regimes in Asia: The liberalization of the higher education market and changing governance in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia

• Mok, Ka Ho Faculty of Social Sciences, Dept. of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong

Pacific Review, 21(2), 147-170, 2008

Routledge

2008

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QA Education System; Categories of Schools
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Competition College Graduates Education, Higher Federal Government Hong Kong China Singapore Malaysia Authoritarian Liberalism Higher Education Market Market Accelerationist State

• Hong Kong
• Singapore
• Malayasia

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Under intensified pressures for improving the global competence of university graduates, national governments across different parts of the globe have to on the one hand expand higher education enrolments and on the other hand assure high quality in teaching and research in order to make sure their higher education systems can compete globally. Many Asian states have been in the forefront of this effort to improve national competitiveness by raising their higher education enrolment rate. As state financing and provision alone will not satisfy the growing demands for higher education, governments in Asia adopt more pro-competition policy instruments and increasingly look to the market/private sectors in running higher education. Therefore the private higher education sector has paid for much of the higher education sector expansion, leading to revolutionary changes and imparting a growing 'privateness' to Asian higher education systems. This article sets out in this wider socio-economic context to examine the rise of transnational higher education in three Asian societies: Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. With particular reference to examining how the growing prominence of privateness in higher education has challenged the conventional education governance models, this article critically examines how these Asian states have reinvented their regulatory regimes to govern the growing complexity and highly contested public-private mix in higher education.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512740801990220]

• English

Journal Articles

• 09512748

• 10.1080/09512740801990220

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/26fee17c

2010-09-27