- Title
- An evaluation of how student expectations are formed in a higher education context: The case of Hong Kong
- Creator
- Willis, Mike; Kennedy, Rowan
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/57379
- Identifier
- vital:2978
- Identifier
- ISSN:0884-1241
- Abstract
- This research identifies a range of issues and factors which impact on the formation of initial expectations developed by local university students wishing to study for a foreign degree program in Hong Kong. Key factors were foreign university Internet sites, exhibitions, agents and associations, brochures and friends. This is one of the first times this kind of research has been undertaken relating to the delivery of foreign programs within the home country, as previous research has tended to focus on study abroad, where the student travels to the foreign country to undertake a degree program. The research also considers how expectations change over time, as students undertake their study for a foreign degree program in Hong Kong, and develops the concept of continuous formation of expectations whereby students mould change, rebuild and continually revisit their expectations of the university program as they undertake a wide range of subjects. This part of the research is quite new and indicates the volatile and changeable nature of the educational service encounter. Both parts of the research are of value not just in regard to the location of the data collection but potentially further afield as an indicator of formative factors regarding expectations and in regard to the concept of continuous formation of expectations.; C1
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Relation
- Journal of Marketing for Higher Education Vol. 14, no. 1 (2004), p. 1-21
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor and Francis
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; 1505 Marketing; Study abroad; Customer satisfaction; Services marketing
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