When Marketisation Does Not Improve Schooling: The Case of Macau.

Tang, Fun Hei Joan; Morrison, Keith

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ERIC Number: EJ610519

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1998

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When Marketisation Does Not Improve Schooling: The Case of Macau.

Tang, Fun Hei Joan; Morrison, Keith

Compare, v28 n3 p245-62 Oct 1998

Suggests that the laissez-faire market principles have failed to provide quality schooling in Macau (China) and that education as a public good requires considerable state intervention. Explores schooling in Macau as a case study to indicate how public goods and private services are neither polar opposites nor mutually exclusive. (CMK)

Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Government Role, Higher Education, Private Education, Privatization, Role of Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Macau

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