Journal article
“Countability not answerability?” Accountability in Hong Kong and Singapore universities
Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Vol.28(1), pp.67-85
2008
Abstract
Singapore and Hong Kong are vying to be the principal educational hub for the Asia-Pacific region and have begun to compete with Australia, Britain, Canada and the USA in providing cross-border education. Although these four Anglo-American countries still dominate cross-border education, Singapore and Hong Kong hope to make inroads into this export market and compete on the global stage. To create "world-class" universities, Singapore and Hong Kong have introduced quality assurance mechanisms, diversified funding sources, and restructured their university governance systems. This article compares the accountability measures introduced into Hong Kong and Singapore universities, and the responses of academics and administrators to these measures. The results indicate that both countries introduced greater autonomy as they augmented accountability for their universities, and the term "decentralised centralism" describes the kind of government control exerted in these Asian universities in the twenty-first century.
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- Title
- “Countability not answerability?” Accountability in Hong Kong and Singapore universities
- Authors/Creators
- J. Currie (Author/Creator)L. Vidovich (Author/Creator)R. Yang (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Vol.28(1), pp.67-85
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Identifiers
- 991005545123807891
- Copyright
- © 2008 National Institute of Education, Singapore
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Social and Community Research
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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