ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses why and how the secondary schools in Hong Kong exerted their influences on students' decision-making of studying in the mainland universities. Such institutional influence is operationally defined as the roles and strategies they adopted in facilitating their students' choice of further studies, as well as the approaches adopted by principals and teachers in executing their personal capacity. Three different types of attitudes can be identified. First, some secondary schools were active drivers and promoters encouraging their students to take this alternate study pathway. Second, some schools considered such pathway as a mechanism for boosting their students' university admission rate. Third, some schools had taken an indifferent approach toward this study option.
