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Direct linkGao, Fang; Adamson, Bob – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
Ethnic minority students--often descendants of earlier waves of immigrants from neighbouring South and Southeast Asian countries--have been under-represented in enrolment in higher education in Hong Kong. In addressing low university/college-enrolment, traditionally under-represented students' family and community are considered deficit and…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Access to Education, College Students, Minority Group Students
Gao, Fang – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Despite national policies, de facto school segregation for racial/ethnic minority students in the West and East has continued to deepen. In Hong Kong, the segregated school system was abolished in 2013, while from 2004 reformed School Places Allocation Systems encouraged minority students to choose mainstream primary and secondary schools.…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Social Capital, College Bound Students, Minority Group Students
Gao, Fang; Ng, Jacky Chi Kit; Lee, Wincy Wing Sze – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
The extant literature on parental involvement in the university choice process sheds light on the positive impact of parents' social capital on enrolment. Little research captures the complex dynamics of parental social capital that might within certain sociocultural and economic contexts compound the effects on university choice and access. This…
Descriptors: Social Capital, College Choice, Parent Participation, Academic Aspiration
Gao, Fang – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2018
Much of the existing literature on social capital and university choice processes postulates that family networks of underrepresented students from poor and minority backgrounds are disadvantaged in university resources and in turn deficit in social capital returns. The literature implies that school-based networks are essential to fill the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, College Choice, Social Networks
Gao, Fang; Ng, Jacky Chi Kit – British Educational Research Journal, 2017
Capital-embedded parental involvement in education is essential in enhancing university enrolment and maximising the educational potentials for equality and excellence. Previous studies in this field have mainly utilised Perna's (2000, 2006) model, which defines parental involvement as social capital and identifies the additive influences of…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, Economic Factors
Gao, Fang – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Despite rapid growth at the 12-year compulsory education stage, Hong Kong's non-Chinese language minority students make up only 1.3% of the whole full-time postsecondary student population; their attendance rate is 13.8%, far behind the overall rate of 43.8%. Policy and research focus on their secondary school graduation with a widely recognized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, Language Minorities
