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Direct linkBeech, Jason; Koh, Aaron; Maxwell, Claire; Yemini, Miri; Tucker, Khen; Barrenechea, Ignacio – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
In this paper the authors study 19 Global Middle Class (GMC) families currently residing in four global cities: Hong Kong; London; Buenos Aires; and Tel Aviv. Through qualitative in-depth interviews, they sought to gather insights about GMC parenting strategies, specifically drawing attention to the decision-making processes of school choice. To…
Descriptors: School Choice, Middle Class, Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism
Educational Value Priorities of Chinese Parents in a Global City: A Mixed-Methods Study in Hong Kong
Trevor Tsz-Lok Lee; Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu – Education and Urban Society, 2024
This study examines the value priorities of Chinese parents regarding their children's education in globally competitive context. Although Chinese parents are often viewed as being excessively controlling of their children and preoccupied with their academic performance, research indicates that contemporary Chinese families hold diverse beliefs…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Academic Aspiration, Global Approach, Child Development
Dowling-Hetherington, Linda – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2020
Increasingly, universities have been engaging in transnational higher education (TNE), and such activity provides students with an additional study option. While much is already known about the TNE activities of universities in larger countries, such as Australia and the United Kingdom, very little is known about universities from smaller…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Programs, Higher Education, Multicampus Colleges
Wu, Mei-Jiun – Journal of School Choice, 2020
By case-studying a multi-route school-choice system like that of Hong Kong, this study attempts to investigate the role of district characteristics in student access to school choice under different admissions policies. A district's income, education, and immigrant level all had stronger negative impacts on school-choice assignments made by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, School Districts, Immigrants
Lee, Amelia N. Y.; Bagley, Carl – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
This paper seeks to question what impact education vouchers have on the process of school choice. The context examined in the paper is the Pre-primary Education Voucher Scheme ("Voucher Scheme") introduced in 2007 in Hong Kong. Using a Straussian grounded theory method, data collected from 40 parent interviews are coded, analysed and…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Decision Making
Ho, Esther Sui Chu; Sum, Kwok Wing – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
This study aims to construct and validate the Career and Educational Decision Self-Efficacy Inventory for Secondary Students (CEDSIS) by using a sample of 2,631 students in Hong Kong. Principal component analysis yielded a three-factor structure, which demonstrated good model fit in confirmatory factor analysis. High reliability was found for the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Self Concept Measures, Test Construction, Test Validity
Yuen, Gail; Grieshaber, Susan – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2009
The introduction of a voucher scheme for early childhood education in Hong Kong has resulted in significant changes in the field. This article reports data from a pilot study that aimed at understanding better how parents chose an early childhood education service following the introduction of a voucher scheme in Hong Kong. Eighty-six Chinese…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Focus Groups, Young Children, Educational Change
Download full textSanoff, Alvin P.; Usher, Alex; Savino, Massimo; Clarke, Marguerite – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2007
When U.S. News & World Report began its ranking of American colleges in 1983, publishers in other countries quickly followed with their own hierarchical measures, providing consumer information (and opportunities for institutional marketing) while attempting to impact the quality of higher education. In the course of the last two decades,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Associations, Private Sector, Higher Education
