7 - A great leap forward: Changes and challenges for private higher education in Hong Kong

7 - A great leap forward: Changes and challenges for private higher education in Hong Kong

A global perspective on private higher education

• Lo, Yat Wai The Hong Kong Institue of Education

• Shah, M.
• Nair, C. S.

Oxford

Chandos Publishing

2016

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

Commodification Mass Higher Education Transnational Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This chapter examines the development of private higher education in Hong Kong since the early 2000s with a focus on the trends of massification and internationalization. It consists of three sections. The first section examines the rationales for privatization of higher education in Hong Kong. The second section delineates the policy initiatives taken by the Hong Kong government to facilitate the development of private education. The third section illustrates the challenges of higher education development at the postmassification stage in the city.

• English

Book Chapters

• 9780081008720

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/a209f00c

2016-04-18