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Wong, Shui-wai; Chui, Yat Hung; Chan, Yuk Chung; Ting, S. Raymond; Lam, Jason K. H. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2016
The present study is the first empirical research in Hong Kong to evaluate a peer career counselling programme consisting of a 3.5-day training and a school-based service project. Using a quasi-experimental design, the evaluation was based on the Career Readiness Scales ratings at three waves of data collection. Results showed that the programme…
Descriptors: Peer Counseling, Career Readiness, Comparative Analysis, Career Counseling
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Cheung, Jordan C. M. – Quality in Higher Education, 2015
This article seeks to spark a dialectic discussion on the establishment of a set of professional competencies for quality assurance practitioners who serve in external quality assurance agencies in higher education. Such a need is identified due to the shortage of relevant and sufficient coverage in the quality assurance literature. To…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Evaluators
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Tho, Siew Wei; Chan, Ka Wing; Yeung, Yau Yuen – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2015
In this study, a new physics education programme is specifically developed for a famous theme park in Hong Kong to provide community-based science learning to her visitors, involving her three newly constructed rides. We make innovative use of digital technologies in this programme and incorporate a rigorous evaluation of the learning…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Physics
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Ho, Dora; Chen, Shu-Chin Susan – School Leadership & Management, 2013
This paper describes the process of school capacity building in Hong Kong's early childhood education at a time when there was a quest for quality education. A local preschool was selected for the study, which took part in a university-school support programme through which consultancy was hired from a university to provide school-based support.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Capacity Building, College School Cooperation, Action Research
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Leung, Maggi W. H.; Waters, Johanna L. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2013
Drawing upon a project on British transnational education (TNE) programmes offered in Hong Kong, this paper interrogates the capacity development impact of TNE on the students, the Hong Kong Government and the programme providers. It addresses the questions: "What capacity is being developed in TNE operations?" and "For whom?"…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Models