Adaptation of Mainland Postgraduate Students to the Hong Kong’s universities

Abstract

<p>As mainland China opens its doors again to strive for economic development, enormous demands for higher education have arisen. Many people choose to go abroad for higher education because the domestic higher education supply is still limited and less competitive than Western universities in some areas. The major destinations include more developed industrialized countries such as Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom (National Education Bureau of China, 2000). According to Altbach’s (1998) push and pull model of international student mobility, Chinese international students of earlier times, except for those who received financial assistance from employers or the Chinese government, were largely pushed by unfavorable conditions in mainland China and pulled by better opportunities in the more developed countries of the West.</p>