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Charlene Tan – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
This article analyses performance-based research evaluation for the higher education sector in a postcolonial context through a Foucauldian lens. Using Hong Kong as an example, this paper examines the formulation of and receptions towards the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). It is argued that Hong Kong academics, especially those working in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postcolonialism, Higher Education, Humanities
Chang, Benjamin – Online Submission, 2017
This article discusses the use of critical and sociocultural approaches to more dynamically 'internationalise' higher education in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. The article explores the integration of critical pedagogy and sociocultural learning theory in developing more engaging and rigorous education practices for…
Descriptors: International Education, Standards, Social Justice, Undergraduate Students
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Zou, Tracy X. P.; Parker, Quentin A.; Hounsell, Dai – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2022
Implementing teaching enhancement is especially challenging when undertaken on a large-scale and with a range of participating institutions and stakeholders. This study sought to advance understanding of this under-researched area through cultural-historical activity theory, investigating four government-funded, cross-institutional teaching…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Teamwork, Participative Decision Making, Leadership Styles
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Earl, Cassie – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2019
The global Occupy! actions gave some pause for thought. At first, some thought that this was a global movement that could change the way politics was conducted and maybe see the end of capitalism as we knew it. The hopes for Occupy! were high, but the highest hopes for the movement were short lived. This paper examines Occupy!'s legacy; what…
Descriptors: Activism, Dissent, Collectivism, Popular Education
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Huang, Futao – Journal of General Education, 2017
This article begins with a review of relevant literature and a brief introduction to dependency theory and center-periphery theory, and then it will outline major changes in general education in the United States. In the third part, the article analyzes how U.S. general education has been transferred to Japan, China, and Hong Kong; its impact on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, General Education, Cultural Differences, Higher Education
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Koh, Aaron – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
This paper highlights how a small group of minority students worked to take advantage of the privileges available once they were admitted to an elite school. The argument proposed is that, unlike their more privileged peers, minority students who have made it through the gateways of elite schools have to work out a salvation of privilege to level…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Institutional Characteristics, Minority Group Students, Academic Aspiration
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Tang, Sylvia Y. F.; Wong, Angel K. Y.; Cheng, May M. H. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
The relative contributions of higher education and schools, and hence the conceptual and practical aspects of ITE, to student teachers' professional learning have been an issue of concern in teacher education. This article reports a mixed-methods study showing the relationship between student teachers' engagement with the practical and conceptual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Mixed Methods Research
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Yung, Kevin Wai-Ho – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
Internationalisation has recently become one of the major developmental goals within many institutions of higher education, where the use of languages on campus plays an important role. While research focusing on the use of English in higher education is growing, little attention has been paid to out-of-class contexts. This paper reports on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interviews, Self Concept, Foreign Countries
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Churchill, Daniel; Wang, Tianchong – Educational Media International, 2014
Mobile devices (e.g. iPads or galaxy tab) are increasingly being used in educational contexts. There has been growing investment in higher education institutions in Hong Kong by the HKSAR Education Bureau in relation to educational uses of mobile technology. However, current research into educational applications of this technology is limited.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Qualitative Research
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Gao, Xuesong – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2014
Cross-border student migration has significant implications for host communities in terms of academic, financial and social consequences. In light of Hong Kong's thirst for human resources, this paper reports on a study that interpreted the graduation plans of a group of "elite" mainland Chinese undergraduates in a publicly funded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Mobility, Undergraduate Students, Graduation
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Lim, Cher Ping – Internet and Higher Education, 2013
This paper demonstrates how the research-practice nexus may be strengthened in higher education by harnessing the conceptual ideas and key findings of a special issue to engage private and public organisations as partners to organise a regional workshop that is followed up by a suite of activities for teacher education institutions and their…
Descriptors: Deans, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Strategic Planning
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Szeto, Elson – International Journal on E-Learning, 2013
Empirical studies of e-learning practices in Chinese higher education are still controversial. Shared Chinese beliefs in education, moving towards mass higher education for global competitiveness and improving e-readiness levels press for ubiquitous use of e-learning in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. This is a small-scale case study using a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Educational Practices
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Szeto, Elson – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
Videoconferencing was often used to distribute live or pre-recorded lectures to students at remote sites. This paper reports a recent study of videoconferencing as a form of technology-enabled learning and teaching in higher education. Videoconferencing was integrated in a blended synchronous approach to teaching remote and face-to-face students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Videoconferencing, Educational Technology, Higher Education
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Stigmar, Martin – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2016
The aim of my critical literature review is to identify studies where students are engaged as partners in teaching in higher education and to analyze how tutors and tutees benefit from peer teaching. Thirty studies were included for review. Thirteen countries are represented and two thirds of the studies conducted in the United States of America…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews
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Kennedy, Kerry J. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
"Policy borrowing" continues to be an important factor in the construction of higher education policy in East Asia. Many post-colonial societies have continued to look to the West for models that will assist them to reengineer their universities in the quest for creating world class institutions. Against this background, Hong Kong's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change
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