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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'
- Children's Geographies, 12(1), 56-69, 2014
- Routledge
- 2014
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- 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. [Copyright of Childrens Geographies is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2013.850851]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 14733285
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/5148f42b
- 2014-12-19
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