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Chong, Sabrina H. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In its quest for boosting Hong Kong's world-class standing in higher education, the Hong Kong Education and Manpower Bureau implemented the 3+3+4 reform, which represents a major overhaul of higher education curriculum; the addition of one year of studies to create a four-year undergraduate degree track is set to replace its three-year track in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Interviews, Administrator Attitudes, Universities
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Gilder, Eric – European Journal of Higher Education, 2011
In this article (part one of two) I will consider, using the dramatistic model pioneered by Kenneth Burke, the "scene" or historical cultural ground of each "highly developed' national/regional area (The EU, the USA, Hong Kong [SAR], and Singapore) in terms of their Higher Education (HE) systems. After these analyses, then I look to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Deng, Zongyi – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2009
This essay explores the nature of the curriculum content of liberal studies--a core school subject in the new senior secondary curriculum in Hong Kong--with reference to the curriculum-making processes entailed in the formation of that subject. The central thesis is that a school subject is introduced to schools and classrooms as a distinct…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation
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Cheung, C. K. – Curriculum Journal, 2009
Media education has been around for quite some time in the West (Bazalgette et al. 1990), but it only started to gain acceptance in Asia (Cheung 2005), particularly in Hong Kong, in the last decade. Recently, it has been gaining more attention in Hong Kong thanks to the curriculum reform in which liberal studies will become one of the four core…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Core Curriculum, Journalism Education, Educational Change
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Lam, John Tak-Shing – Education Journal, 2007
Liberal Studies (LS) has recently been confirmed to be offered as an independent core subject in the local senior secondary school curriculum in 2009. There had been some controversy concerning its status as an independent core subject to be publicly examined in the coming proposed public examination in Secondary 6. This article argues that the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Curriculum, Educational Philosophy
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Kong, Siu Cheung – Computers & Education, 2008
A literature review of the development of the information technology (IT) curriculum in recent decades in Hong Kong reveals that the aim of the curriculum has shifted from Computer Studies to the development of information literacy (IL). Based on a survey of all schools in Hong Kong and in response to the demand for IL in society, a curriculum…
Descriptors: School Culture, Service Learning, Information Technology, Foreign Countries