TY - GEN
T1 - Overview of continuing education in Hong Kong
AU - Ng, Steven Kwan Keung
AU - Lo, Titus Kwok Ki
AU - Wang, Fu Lee
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper summarizes the continuing education in Hong Kong. Because there is a shortage of supply of public-funded post-secondary education in Hong Kong, the public-funded institutions have established a number of continuing education units together with a number of private institutions to provide self-financed post-secondary education. Besides, Hong Kong government also solicits continuing education to public in order to enhance the competitive advantage of the city. Even though the participation rate is gradually increasing but the rate is still lower than that of western societies. This paper studies the motivation and obstacles for learners to pursue continuing education in terms of age segmentation as well as the strategies to develop appropriate programmes for relevant target learner groups.
AB - This paper summarizes the continuing education in Hong Kong. Because there is a shortage of supply of public-funded post-secondary education in Hong Kong, the public-funded institutions have established a number of continuing education units together with a number of private institutions to provide self-financed post-secondary education. Besides, Hong Kong government also solicits continuing education to public in order to enhance the competitive advantage of the city. Even though the participation rate is gradually increasing but the rate is still lower than that of western societies. This paper studies the motivation and obstacles for learners to pursue continuing education in terms of age segmentation as well as the strategies to develop appropriate programmes for relevant target learner groups.
KW - Continuing Education Fund
KW - Continuing education
KW - Hong Kong
KW - Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education
KW - Post-secondary education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84892913765&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-39750-9_35
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-39750-9_35
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84892913765
SN - 9783642397493
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 377
EP - 389
BT - Hybrid Learning and Continuing Education - 6th International Conference, ICHL 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 6th International Conference on Hybrid Learning, ICHL 2013
Y2 - 12 August 2013 through 14 August 2013
ER -