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After globalisation: A reconceptualisation of transnational Higher Education governance in Singapore and Hong Kong
Author(s) -
Lo William Yat Wai
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/hequ.12137
Subject(s) - globalization , corporate governance , politics , argument (complex analysis) , higher education , resistance (ecology) , indeterminacy (philosophy) , political science , global governance , sociology , political economy , social science , economic growth , economics , management , law , ecology , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Research on transnational Higher Education governance has provided a thesis explaining how East Asian states have successfully selectively blended elements of globalisation in Higher Education with their pre‐existing regulatory regimes. However, this paper argues that the thesis overlooks the significance of local politics in understanding the formulation of Higher Education policy, thus insufficiently acknowledging the indeterminacy that arises in the globalisation process. To address this argument, this paper examines the transnational Higher Education development in Singapore and Hong Kong and explains how political resistance and corresponding policy changes that emerged in these two societies help reconceptualise transnational Higher Education governance.