少數族裔在香港居住由來已久，但香港的《施政報告》在2014年才首次提及少數族裔須融入社會，並公佈為少數族裔學生提供「中國語文課程第二語言學習架構」等措施，但這都只是集中支援小一至中六學生，當中並未顧及學前的幼兒(樂施會，2014)。然而，香港教育局早於2006年所編訂的《學前教育課程指引》已確認零至八歲是幼兒學習的最佳時期（課程發展議會，2006)。事實上，隨著多年來南亞裔（如巴基斯坦、尼泊爾、混血兒─華人和其他亞洲人）移民於本港定居，新一代的南亞裔人口在的人口急速上升*他們雖有香港居民身份，但可享有的資源及支援卻與本土居民有所不同(林仕蓉，2011)。自2014年7月平等機會委員會發表報告指教育制度令少數族裔兒童因中文科成績低落而在升學方面得不到公平競爭的機會，並促請當局採取改善措施，包括在學前階段為少數族裔兒童提供中文支援計劃（立法會，2012)。但政府一直沒有在這學習的黃金時期為少數族裔幼兒提供直接和恆常的中文學習支援(樂施會，2014)。為此，本文章透過與一位服務少數族裔學前幼兒多年的幼稚園校長分享及文獻探討，讓大眾瞭解這一社會上的弱勢社群的幼兒學習需要，以及反思支援少數族裔學前幼兒學習的不足情況。

This paper reports a case study on Maneesha Rai, a Nepalese girl living in Hong Kong and an “out of school” student. Based on in-depth interviews, a case was constructed of her previous school days and current “out of school” days. These provided a vivid picture of her life and several themes were created using schema analysis that help explain the reasons for her “dropping out” of school after Form Five. It has been common to attribute school failure for ethnic minority students in Hong Kong to problems with Chinese language education. Yet Maneesha’s case study shows that her experience of failure in other subjects such as Mathematics and Science contributed to her lack of successful schooling. Maneesha’s school failure was more than simply a consequence of academic failure. Rather, there were many other interrelated factors such as peer and community factors, dropout history in the family, racism, differences in schooling culture found that contributed to her school failure. In addition, Maneesha, like many of her ethnic minority friends, enjoyed the freedom afforded her in Hong Kong, but it seemed such freedom also meant inadequate attention from her teachers.
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Elite schools take globalization seriously. But, how do they imagine globalization and put "globalization in action"? Drawing on Burawoy's (2000) sociological framework, "global forces, connectivity and imaginations", this paper reveals how two elite schools, Catheral College in Hong Kong, and Clarence High, in Singapore re-position schooling vis-à-vis globalization. From the broader global imaginings of the two elite schools, the paper then moves on to the micro analysis of the school's curriculum as an exemplification of "globalization in action". There is a visible articulation of learning outside the classroom and beyond its shores in the two elite schools. Students travel to far flung and regional countries for immersion, service learning, leadership training and study tour to widen their portfolio of academic credential; for elite schools know best that good grades for these high caliber students is a given. What they need to add on to their cultural capital are cosmopolitan sensibilities and dispositions. Elite schools clearly have this pedagogical mission in mind when they globalized their curriculum, but are these travels merely educational tourism as critics have suggested or does travel and mobility indeed shape their cosmopolitan sensibilities and dispositions? And is this for the nation or beyond the nation? The final section of the paper draws on interview data to discuss how travel and mobility shape students' subjectivity and affect, and their 'being' and 'becoming' in relation to the nation and/or beyond the nation.

This article is to explore the changing landscape of quality assurance (QA) regimes in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with particular reference to see how the implementation of quality assurance exercises has affected university governance. This article focuses on three aspects of examination. The first is the changing roles of various actors including governments, QA agencies and HEIs in quality assurance. The second dimension of measuring is to examine to what degree that HEIs have been 'monitored' or 'intruded' when quality assurance is becoming more frequent. Finally, how the evaluation report or result is used also act as an important indicator for understanding who retain dominant power among different actors.