Globalization and changing governance: Higher education reforms in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.

Globalization and changing governance: Higher education reforms in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.

AARE 2001 Conference Papers

• Mok, Joshua Ka Ho Comparative Education Policy Research Unit, Dept. of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong
• Lee, Michael Hiu Hong Comparative Education Policy Research Unit, Dept. of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong

• Jeffrey, P. L.

Melbourne

Australian Association for Research in Education

2001

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). Conference (2001: Fremantle WA)

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

Educational Change Higher Education Globalisation Governance Educational Policy Universities Chinese Culture Social Change Decentralisation Privatisation China Hong Kong Taiwan Marketisation

• Hong Kong
• Taiwan
• China

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Higher education systems are in a constant state of change nearly everywhere. In particular, the changes in the socio-economic context caused by the impact of globalisation have inevitably led to changes to the university sector. Since capitalism has generated new global infrastructures that information technology has played an increasingly important role in the global economy, the popularity and prominence of information technology has unquestionably changed the nature of knowledge, and is currently restructuring higher education, research and learning. It is in such a wider policy context that an increasing number of institutions of higher learning are being established with new missions and innovative configurations of training, serving populations that previously had little access to higher education. Apart from accommodating a larger number of students, higher education institutions are required to improve their administrative efficiency and accountability in response to the demands of different stakeholders like government, business, industry, and labour organisations, students and parents as well. The present paper reflects upon the impacts of globalisation on national policy, with particular reference to examine how the higher education sector in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China has been transformed under the increasingly popular / global tide of marketisation and decentralisation. There are a lot of changes in common between the higher education sector in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China and that of elsewhere, which suggests that higher education developments in these societies have been affected by the similar trends of globalisation. But before we jump to this conclusion, maybe we should also bear in mind an alternative hypothesis that local factors are crucial and determining factors for changes. More specifically, this paper sets out in this wider policy context to compare and contrast the similarities and differences in terms of the copying strategies that these Chinese societies have adopted in response to growing impact of globalisation, with particular attention given to the multiple variables derived from both internally, regionally and globally that have shaped higher education policies and recent reform initiatives in these Chinese societies.
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• English

Conference Papers

• 13249320 (CD ROM)
• 13249339 (eISSN)

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2010-11-25