MOK, Ka-ho <br/><br/>
Academic capitalisation in the new millennium :  the marketisation and corporatisation of higher education in Hong Kong 

 -  2001 
<br/><br/> Universities and other institutions of higher learning now encounter far more challenges and are subjected to an unprecedented level of external scrutiny. All providers of higher education today inhibit a more competitive world where resources are becoming scarcer, but at the same time they have to accomodate increasing demands from the local community as well as changing expectations from parents and employers. In such a policy  context, universities are now much more governed by market ideologies and the corporate discourse of efficiency and effectiveness, wich also suggets that the lifestyle of academic is affected as well. This article examines how universities in Hong Kong are affected by the ethos of "academic capitalism", with particular reference to the process of corporatisation and marketisation of higher education