… overall quality and performance of their education systems. This chapter reviews major
developments of education reform and policy renewal taken place in Singapore and Hong Kong, …

… education system has become more urgent in Singapore. It is our contention that the performative
… of reforms in Singapore’s education landscape despite recent compensating policies. …

… to deal with a globalised world that essentially demands the … the 1980s with initial moves
towards innovation and creativity in … 28) in educational reforms in Singapore that occurred in the …

… Singapore school, this paper explores the enlarged but by no means unproblematic role of
strong states and their provision and regulation of education … of education reforms in Asia; the …

… , as globalization and global education reform has created … of performance and of high
performing education systems: … evaluation, the performance of an education system is measured …

… and Hong Kong perform very well in those international rankings as mentioned earlier in
this chapter, their top performance is ironically achieved by rather traditional methods of …

… , global university rankings and academic capitalism, performance indicators and standards-…
towards performance, global standards of excellence and quality, globalisation of academic …

… corporate ethos of efficiency, performance and profit-driven … Gopinathan argue that both
Singapore and Hong Kong have been … of education policies and reforms in both Singapore and …

… Showing how difficult education reform can be when a system needs … system in the world,
based on the performance in … -liberal globalisation and political authoritarianism in Singapore. …

… of change to inform Singapore’s change-reform journey. … the ‘long tail’ in performance
distributions (although this tail is not … well prepared for uncertainties in a globalised economy. For …