ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces and analyzes the process of expansion of upper secondary education in Hong Kong, with a special focus on the 1980s, a period of rapidly growing enrollments in high school. The fast expansion continued until the early 1990s, when the enrollment rate saturated at a level around 90 percent. The chapter analyzes this expansion as a process historically and culturally contextualized in the development of Hong Kong society. In addition to a description of the extent of the expansion and key chronological events, this chapter seeks to extrapolate the key characteristics that may be observed and derived from the Hong Kong experience.
