International Journal of Educational Management: Volume 23 Issue 1

Reforms on teachers' employment system and children's rights to education in China

Zhikui Niu

By reviewing the related literature on the Jiaoshi Pinren Zhi (JPZ) system, this paper seeks to indicate that the implementation of JPZ not only has led to domestic brain drain…

The effects of university mergers in China since 1990s: From the perspective of knowledge production

Ya‐qing Mao, Yuan Du, Jing‐juan Liu

The purpose of this paper is to discover and better understand the efficiency of university mergers from the perspective of knowledge production, with the research capability as…

Efficiency of primary schools in Beijing, China: an evaluation by data envelopment analysis

Yongmei Hu, Zhi Zhang, Wenyan Liang

Under the new policy framework, the China Government will substantially increase education resources investment. As a result, financial under‐provision of schools will not be the…

Principal preparation and training: a look at China and its issues

Wu Yan, Lisa Catherine Ehrich

The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of principal preparation and training in China by providing a background discussion of principal preparation in a number…

Hong Kong educational reforms in the last decade: reform syndrome and new developments

Yin Cheong Cheng

This paper aims to analyse the reform syndrome, bottle‐neck effects and their impacts on teachers and school education in the last ten years and highlight the direction of new…

Managing the process of an educational change: A study of school heads' support for Hong Kong's curriculum reform

Ping‐Man Wong, Alan Chi‐Keung Cheung

To cope with the challenges of the twenty‐first century, the Hong Kong SAR government initiated the Curriculum Reform in 2001. In 2006, a research team from a tertiary institution…

China: the reform of education

Brian Roberts