These are not the best students': Continuing education, transnationalisation and Hong Kong's young adult 'educational non-elite'

These are not the best students': Continuing education, transnationalisation and Hong Kong's young adult 'educational non-elite'

• Waters, Johanna School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
• Leung, Maggi Dept. of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University

Children's Geographies, 12(1), 56-69, 2014

Routledge

2014

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QG Adult, Lifelong & Continuing Education
    • QGB Professional Continuing Education

Transnational Higher Education Young People Hong Kong Continuing Education Geographies Youth Life Dimensions Childhood Children Geography

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This paper examines the under-explored relationship between young people's transitions to higher education (HE) and the opportunities afforded by transnational education (TNE) programmes, with a focus on understanding the contemporary situation in Hong Kong. A fascinating association has developed, over the past decade, between the expansion of TNE in the territory and the government's commitment to providing continuing education'. We explore what this relationship might mean for the young people directly affected by these new opportunities, by drawing on 70 in-depth interviews with students/graduates. Our sample is, what Brinton [2011. Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press] has termed (in another context), Hong Kong's educational non-elite'. We ask: how does this non-elite' negotiate the shifting terrains of educational provision in an era where credentials (particularly at degree-level) are seen as everything'? Our paper contributes directly to discussions around young people and (international) education, and considers frankly the specific role that transnational HE plays in the education/employment transition of thousands of (hitherto neglected) individuals in contemporary Hong Kong.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2013.850851]

• English

Journal Articles

• 14733285

• 10.1080/14733285.2013.850851

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/5148f42b

2014-12-19