The Cost of Managerialism: the implications for the ‘McDonaldisation’ of higher education in Hong KongFootnote¹

¹The earlier version of the paper was presented to the School of Social and Policy Studies in Education, The University of Sydney, August 1997. The author wants to thank Prof. Phillip Jones for inviting him as Visiting Scholar to the university. Thanks must be extended to Prof. Jan Currie, Prof. Don Smart and Prof. Paul Wilding for giving insightful comments to improve the manuscript. Of course, the author is solely responsible for any omissions and errors in the paper.

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