How university-based adult continuing education organisations have responded to Hong Kong's changing educational needs since the 1997 transfer of sovereignty

How university-based adult continuing education organisations have responded to Hong Kong's changing educational needs since the 1997 transfer of sovereignty

• Cheung, Cindy Sin Ying Hong Kong Baptist University
• Pyvis, David Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 11(2), 153-173, 2006

Routledge

2006

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

Educational Needs Continuing Education Foreign Countries Public Policy Educational Policy Higher Education Enrollment Educational Change Hong Kong China

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education
• Adult Education

Since Hong Kong's sovereignty reverted to China in 1997, the university Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) sector has faced an array of unprecedented challenges created mainly through government policy initiatives, an associated and rapid increase in the demand for continuing education, and dramatic changes in the nature of that demand. This paper reports the outcomes of a qualitative study that examined how the sector responded to these challenges. It identifies and describes a triangle of inter-related strategies of response, namely 'building organisational strength', 'programme planning and development' and 'quality assurance'.
[Copyright of Research in Post-Compulsory Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13596740600768943]

• English

Journal Articles

• 13596748

• 10.1080/13596740600768943

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/fd4707b0

2010-11-24