{"title":"The Benevolent Heart Enlightens the Mind, and the Lofty Aspiration Takes the Sky - A Precise Guarantee for the Growth of a Student Who Lose her Parents After Enrolling","authors":"Chuansha Bo","doi":"10.20849/aes.v7i1.1018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/aes.v7i1.1018","url":null,"abstract":"The student in this article is a student who lost her parents due to an accident. As a counselor, in addition to financial aid, we also need to nourish the students’ hearts with kindness and strive to cultivate her positive attitude. A newcomer of the era with a sound personality, ideal, capable and responsible. In the process of funding education, it is necessary to take precision as the core, realize the \"precise drip irrigation\" of supporting resources, and implement the dynamic management of \"one policy for a lifetime\". It is necessary to further strengthen the function of \"supporting aspirations\" and cultivate students' character of \"poor and strong, not falling into the blue sky\".","PeriodicalId":44145,"journal":{"name":"Asian Education and Development Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88439102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Exploration of Quality in Online Course Teaching and Practice","authors":"Mingfa Yao","doi":"10.20849/aes.v7i1.929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/aes.v7i1.929","url":null,"abstract":"This paper takes into consideration of the problems discovered in the quality of online course teaching in the University and cooperates with related departments to conduct a survey on quality of online course teaching and practice, with the purpose of detecting how students evaluate their online course teaching and learning at present, analyzing the factors that influence the online teaching quality, and proposing some strategies to facilitate and improve online evaluation of teaching and enhance education and teaching quality in the University.","PeriodicalId":44145,"journal":{"name":"Asian Education and Development Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74285928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Predicament and Countermeasures of English Writing in Senior High School Teaching","authors":"Yanrong Li","doi":"10.20849/aes.v7i1.1016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/aes.v7i1.1016","url":null,"abstract":"As an important part of high school English classroom teaching, writing teaching is one of the important ways to improve students' English learning ability. As for the current high school English writing teaching, there are still many problems in classroom learning. For example, the students' writing efficiency is not high, the number of words in the classroom writing practice is not enough, off-topic, and writing interest is not high are the practical problems that high school teachers need to solve urgently.","PeriodicalId":44145,"journal":{"name":"Asian Education and Development Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85579047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Using First Language (L1) to Learn Second Language (L2) on Language Learning in Primary School in China","authors":"Yifan Bai","doi":"10.20849/aes.v7i1.1013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/aes.v7i1.1013","url":null,"abstract":"As the development of China from last century, learning English has been valued because of its significance in global interaction. In China, it is not uncommon for primary schools to teach English with the aid of Chinese. In this paper, the author illustrates the benefits of applying first language (L1) to learn second language (L2) in language learning in primary school in China. Both personal language learning experiences and main concepts of this field are employed to support the investigation. Furthermore, the author presents some challenges or suggestions for each part of the discussion to promote the validity of this learning mode.","PeriodicalId":44145,"journal":{"name":"Asian Education and Development Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77118485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shortage of nurses in Hong Kong: the challenges ahead","authors":"Gigi Lam","doi":"10.1108/aeds-08-2021-0179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aeds-08-2021-0179","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeThe aging of a population poses significant challenges to healthcare, housing, social security and elderly care services. Active aging is promoted by the Hong Kong government but is compromised by a shortage of nurses, doctors and professional aides. This study aims to review the history of nursing education in Hong Kong, evaluate Hong Kong's nursing manpower policy with a macro–micro analysis based on sociological imagination and provide sound recommendations.Design/methodology/approachThis article analyzes the nursing shortage in Hong Kong. A comprehensive literature review was conducted, concerning the Hong Kong healthcare workforce and covering relevant government reports, consultation papers and articles from academic journals from 1943 to the present.FindingsThe nursing shortage in Hong Kong can be understood from both absolute and relative terms. The total number of practicing nurses and fresh graduates registering through the four aforementioned pathways increased from 17,034 in 1996 to 61,295 in 2020 (growth rate of 74.4%), but it is predicted that there will be a shortage of 455, 1,383 and 1,669 nurses in 2020, 2025 and 2030, respectively. Moreover, Hong Kong had 8.2 nurses per 1,000 people in 2020. Although this rate exceeds those of China, South Korea and Singapore, it lags behind those of the USA and Australia as well as the international recommendation of nine nurses per 1,000 people. The nurse shortage has been further aggravated by an interaction between macro factors, including aging population, a lack of coherent and long-term nursing manpower policy (an analysis is based on a health policy triangle), numerous obstacles imposed on nurses from abroad and micro factors emanating from an interplay of push–pull factors among nurses.Practical implicationsThe proportion of the Hong Kong population aged 65 years or older was 18% in 2019. The availability of healthcare workers is essential for attaining optimal health outcomes for older adults. The high turnover rate of nurses in public hospitals negatively affects the provision of timely high-quality medical services in the dual-track medical system. Therefore, workforce projections should be made every three years. Such policy should rely primarily on local nurses trained both by University Grant Committee-funded institutions and by self-financed tertiary institutions. Foreign nurses should be a supplementary resource. The budget allocated to the public healthcare sector should be increased to improve remuneration, provide abundant training opportunities and improve working environment to retain nurses in public hospitals.Originality/valueGiven that deep-seated problems surrounding the quantity and quality of nurses, the avenues for pursuing nursing degree education and the turnover rate of nurses in public hospitals remain unsolved, it is imperative to investigate how to alleviate the healthcare workforce shortage in Hong Kong.","PeriodicalId":44145,"journal":{"name":"Asian Education and Development Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47351217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"There is more than what meets the eye: university preparation for the socio-economic impact requirement in research assessment exercise 2020 in Hong Kong","authors":"Danlin Li","doi":"10.1108/aeds-07-2021-0164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aeds-07-2021-0164","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeThis paper aims to examine how Hong Kong universities have responded to a newly included assessment element of socio-economic impact in a government-implemented research evaluation system – Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2020 – within the context of tightening audits and forceful knowledge economy objectives.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reports an institutional case study of the institutional-level response to the RAE 2020 impact requirement at a top-ranked comprehensive university in Hong Kong. A qualitative inquiry approach was adopted. The data sources mainly include university documents related to the RAE 2020 socio-economic impact policy, interview data with nine RAE-eligible academics at the case university, documents on the RAE exercises issued by the University Grants Committee (UGC) and field notes taken during the RAE information sessions.FindingsThe institutionalisation process of the RAE socio-economic impact agenda could be considered as establishing an indicator-oriented reward and recognition regime for knowledge transfer and knowledge exchange (KT/KE). Overall, two major institutional strategies were identified in operating the RAE 2020 impact agenda at the case university: (1) launching various policy initiatives: driven by the RAE-defined socio-economic impact; (2) incorporating socio-economic impact into faculty evaluation: premised upon the 16 KT performance indicators laid down by the UGC.Originality/valueThis article adds to the theoretical debate on the local reproduction of the global in studies of neoliberalism in higher education by describing a Hong Kong case study, supported by empirical data, of an actual university's responses to the newly included impact requirement in RAE 2020. More specifically, this study reveals that (1) the policy for socio-economic impact might be designed in a neutral or even benevolent manner, but has taken on a neoliberal and managerial dimension in its actual implementation; and (2) the neoliberal discourse underpinning the university's operation can be accounted for and explicated by the local factors embedded in the specific academic environment.","PeriodicalId":44145,"journal":{"name":"Asian Education and Development Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47734671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on the Cultivation of Professional Quality of Female College Students Majoring in Flight Attendants","authors":"Peng Zhang","doi":"10.20849/aes.v6i2.970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/aes.v6i2.970","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, there has been no uniform evaluation standard for the professional quality of female college students majoring in flight attendants. And there are many problems in the professional quality training process of female college students due to the uneven quality and training system of various universities. In view of this situation, this paper has conducted investigations, constructed a professional quality evaluation index system for female flight attendants, analyzed the problems in the training of professional quality, and put forward suggestions for the training of professional quality of female college students in flight attendants, hoping to be able to help Provide reference for training talents in universities.","PeriodicalId":44145,"journal":{"name":"Asian Education and Development Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85292107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on Strengthening Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities in the Era of Integrating Media Integration","authors":"Dandan Zhang","doi":"10.20849/aes.v6i2.971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/aes.v6i2.971","url":null,"abstract":"With the continuous maturation of China's social network information technology, the arrival of the media era has greatly changed the environment of Ideological and political education in Colleges and universities, and increased the difficulty of education. In order to improve the effect of ideological education, colleges and universities take the initiative to explore new working methods of Ideological and political education, so as to promote the all-round development of students.","PeriodicalId":44145,"journal":{"name":"Asian Education and Development Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75841841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Alice Y.C. Te, G. Postiglione","doi":"10.1108/aeds-01-2022-289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/aeds-01-2022-289","url":null,"abstract":"Because of its geographical location and economic significance for the whole country, the central government initiated the GBA Development Strategy (Chen, 2018). The GBA concept gained saliency on the basis of South China's unprecedented growth since the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, the industrialization of the Pearl River Delta, the renovation of Macau as a world class entertainment center and the international interdependence of Hong Kong's financial sector with the highest density of top-ranked universities in the world. China's nationwide regional development strategy framework centers on the aim of building a more innovation economy that will support a structural rebalancing from a labor intensive, low investment, export-oriented economy to a high-tech manufacturing and service-based economy that relies more on domestic consumption. “Higher education institution in GBA can become world leaders in addressing problems like COVID-19, future pandemics, climate change, global poverty, equity and social justice, and sustainable development in innovative ways.","PeriodicalId":44145,"journal":{"name":"Asian Education and Development Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48142508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on the Path of Patriotic Education for College Students in the New Era","authors":"Liping Zhang, Peng Lv","doi":"10.20849/aes.v6i2.974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20849/aes.v6i2.974","url":null,"abstract":"Patriotic education in the new era needs to give full play to the role of the main channel of ideological and political courses, strengthen and improve the ideological and political work team, strengthen the construction of practical education base. At the same time, we will continue to explore new channels for educating people, and will fully integrate patriotic education with cultural and moral education. Students need to strengthen their ideals and beliefs, cultivate their patriotism, and turn their patriotism into a trip to serve the country.","PeriodicalId":44145,"journal":{"name":"Asian Education and Development Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77285047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}