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Examiniation for employment and continuing education purposes. The programme is run by member institutions of the Federation for Continuing Education in Tertiary Institutions and has both full-time and part-time modules.
Drawing on the success of the project, the Government introduced a pilot scheme, the Yi Jin/Secondary Schools Collaboration Project, to 10 secondary schools in 2004. As at September 2007, 585 students in 13 secondary schools were taking part in the scheme.
Vocational Education and Training
The Vocational Training Council is a statutory body established in 1982 to provide a comprehensive system of vocational education and training (VET) for school leavers and adult learners to acquire the values, skills and knowledge for lifelong learning and enhanced employment.
The VTC provides a range of quality, internationally recognised full-time and part-time courses which vary from those designed for craftsmen to those for students seeking higher diplomas. They are offered through the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, VTC School of Business and Information Systems, Hong Kong Design Institute, Institute of Professional Education and Knowledge, Youth College, training and development centres and skills centres for people with disabilities. It also provides services such as the administration of the apprenticeship scheme, trade- testing and certification.
The VTC provided some 160 000 full-time and part-time places during the 2007-08 academic year.
Post-secondary Education
During the 2007-08 academic year, some 330 full-time accredited self-financing programmes were offered by 20 post-secondary institutions, providing about 26 000 and 3 000 full-time places for students taking sub-degree and degree courses respectively. These were in addition to some 7 700 publicly-funded places for sub-degree level courses offered by the City University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the Hong Kong Institute of Education, the VTC and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
Higher Education
Hong Kong has 12 degree-awarding higher education institutions, eight of which are funded by the public through the University Grants Committee. The other four are the publicly-funded Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the self-financing Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Shue Yan University and Chu Hai College of Higher Education.
The UGC is a non-statutory advisory body appointed by the Chief Executive to advise on the development and funding of higher education and to administer public grants to the eight higher education institutions. It also plays a major role in quality assurance and in promoting research. It comprises local and non-local academics, professionals and community leaders.
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