Globalization and Marketization in Education: A Comparative Analysis of Hong Kong and Singapore

by Jason Tan and Ka-Ho Mok

Globalization has effected tremendous change to the character and functions of education worldwide. This unique book focuses on its impact upon Hong Kong and Singapore, and how these two East Asian Tigers have responded to the strong global tide of marketization in shaping and developing their education policies. The authors discuss the way in which increasingly prominent tides of marketization, privatization, corporatization and decentralization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184376380X
• ISBN13: 9781843763802
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 168 Pages