IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/injoed/v103y2023ics0738059323002146.html

Reimagining the notion of Hong Kong as an education hub: National imperative for higher education policy

Author

Listed:
  • Lo, William Yat Wai
  • Li, Danling

Abstract

This article examines the evolving concept of Hong Kong as an education hub, with a focus on the influence of the Greater Bay Area (GBA) strategy on higher education development. It begins by reviewing the impacts of the policy of developing Hong Kong into an education hub on the city’s educational landscape and global competitiveness. Subsequently, the article investigates the GBA’s role as a subnational higher education region, highlighting the heightened strategic cooperation between Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland in the higher education arena. The cases of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou are examined as examples of cross-border education in the GBA, shedding light on their role in fostering research collaboration and knowledge exchange. The article reimagines the notion of an education hub, underscoring Hong Kong’s transition from a gateway to a radiator, and discusses the implications of this shift for the city’s global and national positioning. Through this analysis, the article examines the dynamics and future prospects of education hub in Hong Kong, particularly within the context of emphasising integration with the Chinese Mainland.

Suggested Citation

  • Lo, William Yat Wai & Li, Danling, 2023. "Reimagining the notion of Hong Kong as an education hub: National imperative for higher education policy," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:injoed:v:103:y:2023:i:c:s0738059323002146
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102938
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059323002146
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102938?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jana M. Kleibert, 2021. "Geographies of Marketization in Higher Education: Branch Campuses as Territorial and Symbolic Fixes," Economic Geography, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 97(4), pages 315-337, August.
    2. Kleibert, Jana M., 2021. "Geographies of Marketization in Higher Education: Branch Campuses as Territorial and Symbolic Fixes," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 97(4), pages 315-337.
    3. Xiujuan Xie & Xu Liu & Ian McNay, 2023. "One country with two systems: The characteristics and development of higher education in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-11, December.
    4. Olds, Kris, 2007. "Global Assemblage: Singapore, Foreign Universities, and the Construction of a "Global Education Hub"," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 35(6), pages 959-975, June.
    5. Wang, Jue & Chandra, Kevin & Du, Coco & Ding, Weizhen & Wu, Xun, 2021. "Assessing the Potential of Cross-border regional innovation Systems:A case study of the Hong Kong -Shenzhen region," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Kuzhabekova, Aliya, 2024. "From importing to exporting world class: Can Kazakhstan scale up its successful center of excellence project to a regional education hub," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 106(C).
    2. Yun Wang & Raymond Aitibasa Atanga & Yue Guo & Xihong Liu & Ningning Zhang & Yi Liu, 2025. "Mapping Hong Kong’s academic collaboration networks: investigating its role in a cross-border regional innovation system," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 130(10), pages 5591-5611, October.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Danya Al-Saleh, 2022. "Who will man the rigs when we go?†transnational demographic fever dreams between Qatar and Texas," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 40(5), pages 1130-1146, August.
    2. Avishek Jha, 2025. "Curating an ‘educational environment’: Commercial libraries, new entrepreneurs and shifting geographies of education in India," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 57(5), pages 652-668, August.
    3. Guy Crawford & Jens Christiansen & Fernanda Rojas-Marchini, 2026. "Developing methods for future-gazing economic geographies," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 58(2), pages 303-311, March.
    4. Philip Völlers & Thomas Neise & Philip Verfürth & Martin Franz & Felix Bücken & Kim Philip Schumacher, 2023. "Revisiting risk in the Global Production Network approach 2.0 - Towards a performative risk narrative perspective," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 55(8), pages 1838-1858, November.
    5. Qu, Lijuan & Dai, Yuwen, 2024. "Education hubs in a globalized world: The emergence of China," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 104(C).
    6. Kutay Güneştepe & Deniz Tunçalp, 2023. "Territorial dynamics in organizing resistance: The assistants’ solidarity movement in two universities," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 41(6), pages 1200-1224, September.
    7. Sin Yee Koh, 2022. "The inversion of majority/minority at the de/reterritorialised urban higher education enclave: Xiamen University Malaysia," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 59(16), pages 3347-3364, December.
    8. Bobée, Alice, 2025. "Domestic campus expansion in France as a practice of regional dissociation: Advancing reflections on the socio-spatial fragmentation of higher education "at home"," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 159, pages 1-9.
    9. Samantha Cenere & Erica Mangione & Marco Santangelo & Loris Servillo, 2023. "Setting up a University City. Geographies of Exclusion in North Turin," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 114(5), pages 400-414, December.
    10. Helena Barnard & Robin Cowan & Moritz Müller, 2016. "On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects," Working Papers of BETA 2016-04, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg.
    11. repec:osf:socarx:nftv3_v1 is not listed on IDEAS
    12. Kleibert, Jana M. & Bobée, Alice & Rottleb, Tim & Schulze, Marc, 2021. "Transnational education zones: Towards an urban political economy of ‘education cities’," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 58(14), pages 2845-2862.
    13. Hu, Helen Haixia & Bryson, John & Beaverstock, Jonathan V., 2025. "Triple-loop springboarding and simulacrum enterprises: Financialization and new forms of emerging economy educational international businesses," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 34(3).
    14. Yan Xu & Huajie Yang & Zibin Ye & Xiaobo Ma & Lei Tong & Xinyi Yu, 2025. "Leveraging Advanced Mathematical Methods in Artificial Intelligence to Explore Heterogeneity and Asymmetry in Cross-Border Travel Satisfaction," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-23, June.
    15. Aurora A. C. Teixeira & Luisa Mota, 2012. "A bibliometric portrait of the evolution, scientific roots and influence of the literature on university–industry links," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 93(3), pages 719-743, December.
    16. Yue Huang & Nian Wang & Lu Liu & Ruiwen Liao, 2025. "Transition From Traditional Infrastructure to New Digital Infrastructure, a Better Road to Narrow Green Innovation Gap? the Perspective of Convergence," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 16(5), pages 17054-17084, November.
    17. Chuyi Shen & Zhenjie Yang & Fat-iam Lam & Sio wa Tam & Wenping Yang & Yunxin Li, 2025. "Scientific and technological innovation cooperation network of the Greater Bay Area in South China: A social network analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 20(7), pages 1-16, July.
    18. Jana M Kleibert & Alice Bobée & Tim Rottleb & Marc Schulze, 2021. "Transnational education zones: Towards an urban political economy of ‘education cities’," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(14), pages 2845-2862, November.
    19. Hu, Helen Haixia & Bryson, John & Beaverstock, Jonathanv, 2025. "Triple-loop springboarding and simulacrum enterprises: financialization and new forms of emerging economy educational international businesses," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 127307, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    20. Angelo Leogrande & Carlo Drago & Giulio Mallardi & Alberto Costantiello & Nicola Magaletti, 2024. "Patenting Propensity in Italy: A Machine Learning Approach to Regional Clustering," Working Papers hal-04854759, HAL.
    21. Rikap, Cecilia & Flacher, David, 2020. "Who collects intellectual rents from knowledge and innovation hubs? questioning the sustainability of the singapore model," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 59-73.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:injoed:v:103:y:2023:i:c:s0738059323002146. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-educational-development .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.