Gerard A. POSTIGLIONE is Chair Professor in Higher Education, Coordinator of the Consortium for Research on Higher Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong – Higher Education and the 2020 Outbreak: We’ve Been Here Before
Universities around the world are responding to COVID-19 in different ways. Hong Kong, located close to the origin, was fast to react. It learned useful lessons in 2003, when it was at the epicenter of…
Disruptions and Higher Education: The Coming Crunch
It has become important to consider the long-term impact and disruption that accelerated technological change and intensified economic globalisation will have on universities, as well as on social and economic life. As the world becomes…
Hong Kong’s Higher Education: 20 Years After Handover
Twenty years after its retrocession to Chinese sovereignty, Hong Kong managed to develop more world-class universities than perhaps any other city in the world. How did this happen, and can it be sustained? In…
