ABSTRACT
Both the Hong Kong and Singapore education systems have been affected by the trend of marketization over the two decades since the 1980s. Major concerns of education reform have been to improve the overall quality of education by allowing more choice for parents and students, granting schools more autonomy, and bringing about a more diversified education system. While the Hong Kong government has introduced and implemented the Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) policy with an aim of building up a strong and independent private school system since the early 1990s, the Singapore government has introduced independent and autonomous schools, institutionalized a school ranking system, and conferred quality school awards since the late 1980s and early 1990s.
