ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the most recent higher education reforms and restructuring in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, with particular reference to the issues related to globalisation of decentralisation and marketisation in higher education. It also examines how educational governance modes have been changing in the Chinese societies of Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China. In Higher Education Restructuring in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China 289 the past decade or so, major reforms related to higher education were introduced with the central features of decentralisation and marketisation. Educational decentralisation is a popular reform of governments around the world even though diverse strategies and outcomes have resulted. In Hong Kong, the call for quality education and the launch of university-based management were initiated within a decentralisation policy framework. "Denationalisation" implies that the state has begun to forsake its monopoly on higher education, allowing the non-state sector and even the market to engage in higher education provision.
