In the last decade, the higher education systems in Hong Kong and Singapore have experienced the processes of marketisation and corporatisation. Public universities are under constant pressures to restructure themselves to become more entrepreneurial and globally competitive. The principal goal of the article is to compare and contrast how and why governments in Hong Kong and Singapore have increasingly adopted more pro-competition policy tools, especially when indirect policy instruments have become increasingly popular in governing higher education in these East Asian Tigers. The present article also examines whether and how these Asian developmental states have really reduced their capacity in managing the public sector particularly when the "liberalising and marketising trends" are more globally driving their choices and options of policy tools.
The article examines how the policy of decentralization has affected the governance modes of higher education in Mainland China. It focuses on financing, provision and regulation in education, with special attention given to examining the changing relations delivery. One very significant consequence of the change is that the public-good functions of education, of which the state has taken the primary role of a reliable guarantor, have diminished. Nonetheless, the state's role as a regulator and overall service coordinator has been strengthened rather than weakened under the policy of decentralization. (DSE/DÜI)
English Universities and other institutions of higher learning now encounter far more challenges and are subjected to an unprecedented level of external scrutiny. All providers of higher education today inhibit a more competitive world where resources are becoming scarcer, but at the same time they have to accommodate increasing demands from the local community as well as changing expectations from parents and employers. In such a policy context, universities are now much more governed by market ideologies and the corporate discourse of efficiency and effectiveness, which also suggests that the lifestyle of academics is affected as well. This article examines how universities in Hong Kong are affected by the ethos of 'academic capitalism', with particular reference to the processes of corporatisation and marketisation of higher education.
Examines impact of market ideologies, corporate discourse of efficiency and effectiveness, and globalization on universities; focuses on quality assurance activities, such as research assessment exercise (RAE), teaching and learning quality process review (TLQPR), and management review (MR), university governance, academic autonomy, and other issues. Summaries in French and Spanish.
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1. Introduction : the search for a new social policy paradigm : managing changing social expectations and welfare regimes in transition in Greater China / Ka Ho Mok and Maggie K. W. Lau -- 2. After the regional and global financial crises : social development challenges and social policy responses in Hong Kong and Macau / Ka Ho Mok and M. Ramesh -- 3. Welfare restructuring and social (in)equity across generations in Hong Kong / Maggie K. W. Lau -- 4. Economic insecurity and social protection for labour : the limitations of Hong Kong's adhocism during the financial crises / Kim-Ming Lee and Kam-Yee Law -- 5. Challenges for the developmental welfare regime in Taiwan : from authoritarianism to democratic governance / Yu-Fang Chang and Yeun-Wen Ku -- 6. Bringing the state back in : the development of Chinese social policy in China in the Hu-Wen Era / King-Lun Ngok -- 7. Asserting the "public" in welfare provision : a study of resident evaluation and expectation of social services in Guangzhou, China / Ka Ho Mok and Genghua Huang -- 8. Social policy in the Macao Special Administrative Region of China : a case of regulatory welfare regime / Dicky W. L. Lai -- 9. Old age care concerns and state-society relations in China : public anxiety and state paternalism / Lijun Chen and Dali L. Yang -- 10. Public-private pension mix and its governance : Japan and Taiwan compared / Chung-Yang Yeh and Shih-Jiunn Shi -- 11. Poverty reduction, welfare provision and social security challenges in China in the context of fiscal reform and the 12th Five- year Plan / Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh and Susie Yieng-Ping Ling -- 12. Conclusion : analysing the productivist dimensions of welfare : looking beyond the Greater China region / John Hudson and Stefan Kuhner.
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This book offers critical analysis of the search for new governance in Asia, comparing and contrasting the experiences of different Asian societies, including: China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand.
