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Quality Education Fund
Up to the end of August 2016, the Quality Education Fund had approved about $4.27 billion for 9,048 projects to promote high-quality education and schemes that recognise teaching excellence.
Life Planning Education
A recurrent Career and Life Planning Grant of about $500,000 is disbursed to public-sector and DSS schools providing senior secondary education from the 2014-15 school year to implement life planning education to better prepare students for the transition from school to post- secondary education, including VPET, or the workplace and to make the best of opportunities ahead. Schools may turn the grant into regular teaching posts from 2016-17 to further consolidate their experiences with more stable teaching manpower.
The Business-School Partnership Programme provides students with opportunities to explore different trades and careers. In 2015-16, more than 140 business organisations collaborated with the EDB in organising over 950 activities benefiting some 275,000 students. The bureau will continue to encourage closer collaboration between schools and different sectors in the community to arrange more opportunities for secondary students to acquire first-hand experience about different careers.
Support for Needy Students
In the 2016-17 school year, 896 schools and 173 NGOs received subsidies under the School- based After-school Learning and Support Programmes for organising activities to help about 190,000 eligible needy students improve their learning effectiveness, broaden their learning experiences outside the classroom and raise their understanding of the community and sense of belonging.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Life-wide Learning Fund, established by the bureau and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, allocated $87.81 million, including an Award Scheme allocation of $23.62 million, to 937 participating schools in 2015-16. This helped around 200,000 students in need from Primary 1 to Secondary 6 to take part in activities organised or recognised by schools that fostered whole-person development.
Student Finance Office
To ensure no student is denied access to education because of a lack of means, the Student Finance Office of the Working Family and Student Financial Assistance Agency provides means- tested and non-means-tested financial assistance at various study levels. The office also administers a number of scholarship schemes.
Financial Assistance for Pre-primary Education
Eligible children may enjoy non-means-tested fee subsidies under the Pre-primary Education Voucher Scheme, and means-tested fee remission under the Kindergarten and Child Care Centre Fee Remission Scheme. In the school year of 2015-16, fee subsidies and remission. totalling $3.1 billion and $542 million were granted to about 139,200 and 40,300 students respectively.
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