| Date | 22 February 2023, Wednesday |
| Time | 12:30 - 14:00 |
| Speakers |
Prof. Ka Lin Professor of Zhejiang University and the visiting professor of Lingnan University, Docents of Tampere University and the University of Turku, Senior Research Fellow of The National University of Singapore
Mr. Hamzah Nor Bin Aedy Rahman PhD student, School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University |
| Venue | LYH201/1, 2/F, Lau Lee Yuen Haan Amenities Building, Lingnan University |
| Online Registration | https://lingnan.asia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eJ8aPGc5yPHk6CW |
Topic (I): The Recent Debate of Social Policy and Development in the Chinese and the Global Contexts
In the 21st century, many old issues of social policy have faded but some new issues become in the central of the debate. This lecture will discuss some key issues of these changes in three themes, with some insight given into the social development of China. The first issue will be on the ideal of common prosperity, which is a living issue under this social policy debate, and which has a serious socioeconomic consequence. The second themes is about the road of modernization and the risk of middle-income trap, made in the international contexts, and learn lessons for China to develop its modernization. The three theme under this discussion is on the globalisation and deglobalisation. The international climate of development has been rapidly change through this three-year period of Covid-19, and the degree of uncertainty for the regional and international development increases dramatically. This shapes out of new atmosphere for policymakers to consider social policy issues and welfare service provision, and the global social policy should be in the focus of social policy studies.
Speaker
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Prof. Ka Lin
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Prof. Ka Lin, Professor of Zhejiang University and the visiting professor of Lingnan University, Docents of Tampere University and the University of Turku, Senior Research Fellow of The National University of Singapore. He was the director of Social Policy Center of Nanjing University and chair in the department of social security and risk management in Zhejiang University. He is the vice-chair in the International Association on Social Quality, and Vice-chair in the Committee of International social security studies in the Chinese Social Security Association, and vice-chair in the Social Policy Committee of the Chinese Sociological Association. His publications include several books and a hundred of research papers on English and Chinese journals.
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Topic (II): Aspiration-Raising Agenda in Malaysian Higher Education: Individual Perspectives, Strategies, and Consequences
Increasing the number of students from low-income families and underprivileged groups enrolling in higher education institutions has been a key policy objective in Malaysia. The launch of the Malaysia Education Blueprint (Higher Education) 2015 – 2025 sees the Malaysian aspiration to widen access to and increase enrolment in higher education. Notwithstanding the provision of its aspiration-raising agenda, the Department of Statistics Malaysia recently reported a low percentage (27.9 percent) of secondary-school leavers aspiring to pursue higher education. Whilst aspiration is complex, strategies are often outlined in narrow equality and equity terms, removing perceived barriers to access higher education, primarily being the lack of resources. Drawing on thirty-five semi-structured interviews with secondary-school leavers and parents across Malaysia, this qualitative study explores the nuanced view of aspiration-raising and its consequences from individual perspectives. The findings are twofold; the neglect of “capacity to aspire” which has resulted in “poverty of aspiration” and the deprivation of the right to education through the apartheid-like affirmative policies, privileging the Bumiputera. The study also identifies a tension in the aspiration-raising dialectic between national agenda and individual “hopes and wishes”. The findings demonstrate a critical need to adjust the national aspiration, concentrating less on individual-focused strategies.
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Mr. Hamzah Nor Bin Aedy Rahman
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Mr. Hamzah Nor Bin Aedy Rahman is a PhD student of the School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University |
