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A Study of the Impacts and Implications of an Innovative Admission Scheme for Hong Kong Students to Study in Universities in Mainland China

13/9/2017

Alice Yuen Chun Te (Hong Kong Public Administration Association)

Hong Kong is a dynamic and heterogenous society which has undergone unprecedented political, economic and social changes in the past twenty years. Transit from a British colony to a Special Administrative Region of Mainland China under “One Country, Two Systems”, Hong Kong enjoys the autonomy in formulating its own educational policies. Nevertheless, with the intrigued relationship with China, deeper collaboration and integration crossing the border tends to be an inevitable trajectory. Started in 2012, secondary school graduates have multiple pathways for personal development. Under the Scheme for Admission of Hong Kong Students to Mainland Higher Education Institutions (“Scheme”), students can be admitted to undergraduate programs in Chinese universities based on their Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination results, without taking the Joint Entrance Examination for Hong Kong students. This Scheme is unique as it is the only “government-to-government” initiative on supporting Hong Kong students studying outside Hong Kong. Students can enter 90 Mainland universities, of which half of them are Project 211 universities, and 23 are under Project 985, the top-tiered universities. This paper will review the background of the formulation, and implementation of this innovative Scheme, and discuss its impacts and implications for the students and the society.

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E-resilience for DRM: Insights from the Philippines

13/9/2017

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Ranjit Singh Rye (University of the Philippines)
Rogelio Alicor Panao (University of the Philippines)
Erwin Gaspar Alampay (University of the Philippines)

This paper looks at the issue of e-resilience in the Philippines, and evolving national perspectives on the issue. The paper is framed based on United Nations’ definitions for disaster, and disaster risk reduction, that is also followed in local legislation. eResilience sidelined as a means towards reducing risk and addresses possible vulnerabilities in the functional use of ICTs (information and communications technology) in delivery of services (e.g. communication, data repository, and other management information services) and its ability to withstand vulnerabilities of the ICT infrastructure. The paper provides a country-level synopsis based on the ICT readiness of the national DRM plans and the resilience of ICT systems to provide basic services in withstanding disaster events and help in recovery. Implications on governance and disaster risk reduction and management will be derived from the insights of this country level analysis.

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A Study of the Impacts and Implications of an Innovative Admission Scheme for Hong Kong Students to Study in Universities in Mainland China

E-resilience for DRM: Insights from the Philippines

Theme A: Public Sector Transformations

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