Educational reforms and coping strategies under the tidal wave of marketisation: A comparative study of Hong Kong and the mainland

Educational reforms and coping strategies under the tidal wave of marketisation: A comparative study of Hong Kong and the mainland

• Chan, David City University of Hong Kong
• Mok, Ka Ho City University of Hong Kong

Comparative Education, 37(1), 21-41, 2001

Routledge

2001

• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RC Educational Planning & Decision Making Process, Educational Administration
• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RE School Management, School-Parents Relationship
• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RF School Supervision, Accountability & Inspection: Education Indicators, Privatization of School

Accountability Decentralization Educational Change Educational Policy Elementary Secondary Education Foreign Countries Free Enterprise System Privatization School Based Management China Hong Kong Managerialism Quality Assurance

• Hong Kong
• China

• 1980s
• 1990-1997.6
• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education
• Secondary Education

It has been a global trend, since the 1980s, that the process of marketisation has been influential in the decision making of social policies around the world, and that this tidal wave is now crossing over to the Asia–Pacific region as well. Education policy, as one of the important social policies for many developing countries, has been influential in the forefront of national development in terms of manpower training, as well as in other arenas of economic and social developments. In this way, these countries are trying to improve the quality of their educational services so that they can be more competitive in order to cater for the demands in the international markets. One of the outcomes of this global trend is the international quality assurance movement in streamlining the educational institutions as well as in using different coping strategies to promote quality education for all concerned. For the Chinese mainland, it seems that the central government is adopting a policy of decentralisation in getting local governments to use multiple channels of resources and other methods to provide for their own educational services. Hong Kong as a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, however, has adopted quite a different approach by employing the principle of managerialism in order to enhance its competitiveness in providing quality education to meet the increasing market demands. Hence, the present study is to compare and contrast the educational reforms and coping strategies that have been adopted by the socialist mainland, on the one hand, and the capitalist Hong Kong SAR, on the other hand, in order to face this new challenge of marketisation.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 03050068

• 10.1080/03050060020020417

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2010-09-08