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Thomas, Keith; Wong, Kin Chi; Li, Yi Ching; Hung, Ching Yan – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2013
Cross-sector educational reform to be implemented in 2012 in Hong Kong (HK) is intended principally to prepare students for the future workplace. One of the explicit requirements for the new four-year undergraduate curriculum is the inclusion of a capstone course for final year students. This paper explores the uptake and reported effect of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Seniors, Curriculum, Student Projects
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Thomas, Keith; Wong, Kin-chi; Li, Yi-ching – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
A principal consideration in recent cross-sector educational reforms in Hong Kong is ensuring that undergraduate programmes prepare students for the future workplace, a factor that has made the capstone a central feature of the new four-year curriculum. This paper discusses a study that explored the final-year student experience based on a…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Student Experience, Student Projects, Formative Evaluation
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Wong, Ping-Man; Cheung, Alan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
This article is one of a series of papers generated from the Curriculum Reform study in Hong Kong with the purpose of understanding the impact of government's role in the change process of the reform. This paper specifically examines the 17 government initiatives in the Curriculum Reform in terms of their adoption percentages of schools from…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Government Role, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Cheung, Ming – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2012
Hong Kong's transformation from a manufacturing to a knowledge-based economy has prompted the local government to promote the city as a regional design center. The 2008 Policy Address delivered by Hong Kong's Chief Executive calls for the creation of a large pool of creative and knowledgeable talent. The government recognizes that, in addition to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcome Based Education, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development
Fok, Ping Kwan; Kennedy, Kerry J.; Chan, Jacqueline Kin Sang – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2010
Following the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region developed wide-ranging curriculum reforms, including project learning. A recent survey has indicated that over 80% of Hong Kong primary and secondary schools have adopted project learning as a curriculum task. Such an…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2016--END 2016, taking place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 12 to 14 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Quality, Academic Standards, Curriculum