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Since 1997 when Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, a string of education reforms have been introduced to improve the quality of education and maintain Hong Kong’s economic competitiveness in the age of globalization. This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of major issues and challenges faced by the education system, ranging from pre-school to higher education. It analyses the prospects for educational development in Hong Kong. It further addresses how the Hong Kong government has responded to the perceived challenges of the external environment and internal forces and explains the rationales for the actions taken. Not only does it review how the reform initiative challenges have been dealt with, it also reviews how effective these initiatives are and its implications on future directions.
About the author
Thomas Kwan-choi Tse received his PhD degree with a focus on sociology of education at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom in 1997. He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Educational Administration and Policy, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He teaches and publishes in the fields of civic education, moral education, educational policy and sociology of education.
Michael H. Lee
received his doctorate in the field of higher education studies at the University of Hong Kong, is a Lecturer in the Department of History of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, teaching and researching in the area of educational history, development and policy in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.Rate this ebook
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