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Lo, William Yat Wai – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
This paper aims to explain the path of higher education development and governance in (post-colonial) Hong Kong in light of the concept of hybridity. The paper begins with a historical review, delineating the establishment of major universities in Hong Kong, thereby illustrating how hybridity informs the trajectory of higher education development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Development, Governance
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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
Penprase, Bryan E.; Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Hong Kong and Singapore are island city-states that exude the complicated tensions of postcolonial nationalism. Both are influenced directly or indirectly by the long shadow of China's rising nationalism and geopolitical power and, in the case of Hong Kong, subject to Beijing's edicts under the terms of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration.…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Cross Cultural Studies, Universities, Foreign Countries