Politics, Managerialism, and University Governance by Wing-Wah Law

Author:Wing-Wah Law
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811373039
Publisher: Springer Singapore

Head of Government as the Chancellor of Public Universities: A British Colonial Practice in Postcolonial Hong Kong

In Hong Kong , the current higher education administration system has loopholes that can become doorways for the government’s political intervention in university governance. Chief among these is the HKSARCE’s dual role. On the one hand, s/he is the head of the government which, via the UGC, steers and oversees the governance and development of, and allocates resources to, public universities. On the other, s/he is also the ex-officio chancellor of all public universities, with substantive legal authority and power over them. However, until HKSARCE C. Y. Leung assumed the chancellorship in 2012, this dual role had not been a major public concern. Since then, however, it has spawned an intervarsity campaign to abolish the HKSARCE’s automatic chancellorships. The central debate, this section argues, is about how to balance public accountability and institutional autonomy in UGC-funded universities, yet guard against potential political interference by the government, under Chinese sovereignty.

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