香港高校自资式研究院修课课程:特点、发展趋势与面临的挑战

Self-funded Taught Postgraduate Courses in Hong Kong Universities: Features,Trends,and Challenges

作为香港高等教育体系的重要部分,现有11所香港高校开设自资式研究修课课程。自资式研究院修课课程普遍具有学制短、实用性项目课程为主、课程设置灵活、兼读制模式及本地生为主等特点。近年来,随着香港逐步推进教育产业发展及区域教育枢纽建设,自资式修课研究生教育规模稳步增长,项目发展呈多样化趋势,且内地生规模迅速扩大。同时,香港高校修课式研究生教育也面临着来自规模偏小带来的集聚效应不足,课程设置高度市场化带来的办学风险等方面的挑战。

As an integrated part of Hong Kong higher education,self-funded taught postgradu- ate courses（ STPCs） are offered by 11 universities in Hong Kong.STPCs in Hong Kong uni- versities are usually applied majors with flexible curriculum,which also are short in course dura- tion.Besides,most STPCs are offered in part、｜ time mode which is mainly for local students. However,as Hong Kong＇s efforts on promoting educational industry and regional educational hub building,STPCs enjoy stable growth in size and indicate the trends of diversification of course development and the rapid growth of the mainland student population.STPCs also con- front the challenges of insufficient cumulative efforts due to school sizes and the risks of the highly market、｜ oriented course offering mechanism.