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Warming up or Cooling Out? Educational Desire and Higher Education Participation in an Asian Context
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Direct linkTang, Hei-hang Hayes; Dang, Beatrice Yan-yan – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
Concerns of equity with respect to the community college model in East Asia persist in educational research. In this study, we described and analysed students' "lived experience" in community colleges in Hong Kong in terms of the "warming up" or "cooling out" of their educational desire. Semistructured interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Community Colleges, Community College Students
Wong, Yi-Lee – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
In order to increase the competitiveness of the workforce at low cost, the Hong Kong government brought in the idea of community colleges and the associate degree while keeping the same annual set quota of first-year, first-degree places at publicly-funded universities. At first glance, in doing so, the government could avoid expanding the sector…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Community Colleges, Foreign Countries, Associate Degrees
