Higher Education Research in Hong Kong: Context, Trends, and Vision
With the processes of inter- and intranationalization, higher education in Hong Kong has been rapidly expanding in an effort to develop the city into a regional education hub. This chapter explores the trends and developments of higher education research
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Higher Education Research in Hong Kong: Context, Trends, and Vision William Yat Wai Lo and Felix Sai Kit Ng
Abstract With the processes of inter- and intranationalization, higher education in Hong Kong has been rapidly expanding in an effort to develop the city into a regional education hub. This chapter explores the trends and developments of higher education research (HER) in Hong Kong in the context of inter- and intranationalization. By drawing on the data from the Scopus database, this chapter analyzes a selection of journal chapters on higher education published in Hong Kong over the past three decades. Findings show that a significant growth and some new outputs have been seen in the field during the study period. In addition, local researchers have complied with the rule by forming more transnational and intranational research teams and by conducting more nonlocal studies. Interestingly, many of them have not abandoned local collaboration and studies, but they further developed their roots. These findings reveal that some internal signs of cosmopolitanization have been recorded in the field.
Introduction The development of higher education in Hong Kong can be observed in a dual trend, in which higher education in the territory has responded to the phenomenon of globalization and its associated changes, and it has faced many local challenges especially during the period of the transfer of sovereignty. Specifically, on one hand, higher education in Hong Kong has been substantially influenced by international competition caused by the profound effects of globalization, as evident in many This chapter was mainly revised and adapted from the authors’ previously published article, Lo, W.Y.W. and Ng, F.S.K. (2015) Trends and developments of higher education research in Hong Kong: In pursuit of a cosmopolitan vision, Higher Education Policy 28(4): 517–534. W.Y.W. Lo (*) Department of International Education and Lifelong Learning, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China e-mail: [email protected] F.S.K. Ng Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 J. Jung et al. (eds.), Researching Higher Education in Asia, Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4989-7_8
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other East Asian countries. In addition, Hong Kong, as the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China (hereafter China or mainland China) after 1997, enjoys significant autonomy in various aspects, including education, under the “One Country, Two Systems” principle. This special political status, together with the colonial history of the city, grants universities in Hong Kong the privileged position as the bridge between the international academic community and the higher education sector in China, but this position requires them to remain highly internationally and globally connected. On the other hand, universities in Hong Kong have to deal with the ascending “C
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