TY - GEN
T1 - A review on the admission policies of hong kong universities for non-local students from mainland China
AU - Xie, Haoran
AU - Zou, Di
AU - Wong, Tak Lam
AU - Wang, Fu Lee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Students from Mainland China are the largest group of non-local students for Hong Kong universities in recent years. To attract more Mainland students and smoothen their application processes, the admission policies of Hong Kong universities are becoming increasingly more compatible for students from Mainland by recognizing various qualifications and standard examinations (e.g., Joint Entrance Exam For Universities in PRC, College English Test and Test for English Majors). However, the quick increasing amount of Mainland students in Hong Kong universities has brought various social issues concerning arguments about the medium of instructions, Hong Kong-mainland contradictions and so on. To understand how the various policy text, this essay reviews the admission policies of Hong Kong universities and related issues from three aspects: institution categories, programme levels, and place of origin. Furthermore, research questions such as what broader politics surround the policy issue, which institutions/actors are involved in the policy process and what the outcomes are answered by employing the political system theories. The social problems related to the admission policies will be examined and discussed, solutions for which will also be proposed.
AB - Students from Mainland China are the largest group of non-local students for Hong Kong universities in recent years. To attract more Mainland students and smoothen their application processes, the admission policies of Hong Kong universities are becoming increasingly more compatible for students from Mainland by recognizing various qualifications and standard examinations (e.g., Joint Entrance Exam For Universities in PRC, College English Test and Test for English Majors). However, the quick increasing amount of Mainland students in Hong Kong universities has brought various social issues concerning arguments about the medium of instructions, Hong Kong-mainland contradictions and so on. To understand how the various policy text, this essay reviews the admission policies of Hong Kong universities and related issues from three aspects: institution categories, programme levels, and place of origin. Furthermore, research questions such as what broader politics surround the policy issue, which institutions/actors are involved in the policy process and what the outcomes are answered by employing the political system theories. The social problems related to the admission policies will be examined and discussed, solutions for which will also be proposed.
KW - Admission policies
KW - Hong Kong universities
KW - Mainland students
KW - Non-local students
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85069850579&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-9895-7_20
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-9895-7_20
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85069850579
SN - 9789811398940
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 224
EP - 234
BT - Technology in Education
A2 - Cheung, Simon K.S.
A2 - Li, Kam Cheong
A2 - Lee, Lap-Kei
A2 - Jiao, Jianli
A2 - Zhang, Xuebo
A2 - Zhan, Zehui
T2 - 4th International Conference on Technology in Education, ICTE 2019
Y2 - 15 March 2019 through 17 March 2019
ER -