Education and the market place in Hong Kong and Mainland China

Document Type

Journal article

Source Publication

Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning

Publication Date

3-1-1999

Volume

37

Issue

2

First Page

133

Last Page

158

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Abstract

This paper attempts to examine how market forces have affected educational development in Hong Kong and Mainland China. In both places, there has been a trend to the decentralisation and marketisation of education in recent years, particularly in the realm of higher education. Based upon recent research conducted in Hong Kong and China, the author argues that higher education in these two places has been significantly affected by emerging market forces. The core of the paper is confined to the discussion of two major issues: |Wbuser charges|WB] and |Wbthe introduction of “competition” and cost recovery|WB] in education. The main focus of this paper is on what strategies education institutions in Hong Kong and China have employed in response to the strong tide of marketisation. Particular attention will be given to discussing how markets and competition have affected the governance and delivery of educational services in Hong Kong and China. This comparative study has demonstrated that even though the recent developments in higher education in these two places have been experiencing a similar global trend, the global tide of universal trend in which private charges, market competition, non-state provision, corporate governance, system-wide performance management should not be treated as a simplistic notion of undifferentiated universal trend. Instead, different places may take different configurations in cases of marketization which remain national-specific as well as global.

DOI

10.1023/A:1003542916506

Print ISSN

00181560

Publisher Statement

Copyright © Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999

Additional Information

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Full-text Version

Publisher’s Version

Language

English

Recommended Citation

Mok, K.-H. (1999). Education and the market place in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 37(2), 133-158.

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