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Financial Assistance

Continuing Education Fund
 
VTC Continuing & Professional Education offers a number of Continuing Education Fund (CEF) reimbursable programmes.  The Government implements a series of enhancement measures under CEF on 1 April 2019 and 1 August 2022.  Details are as follows.  For more information, please visit the CEF website.
 
  • Increasing CEF subsidy ceiling to HK$25,000 per applicant;
  • Re-activating closed CEF accounts, so that applicants can make use of the unused balance (if any) under the original subsidy of HK$20,000, as well as the additional subsidy of HK$5,000;
  • Adopting a co-payment ratio by learners for the first HK$10,000 subsidy at 20% of the course fee and that for the second HK$15,000 subsidy at 40% of the course fee;
  • Removal of the upper age limit for CEF applicants.
  • Expanding the scope of CEF courses to all eligible courses registered in Qualifications Register;
  • No validity period of CEF accounts and no limit on the maximum number of claims.
  • To submit application for opening CEF account together with application for the first reimbursement claim after the successful completion of the first CEF course within one year;
  • Enhancing the quality assurance monitoring of CEF courses; and
  • The new enhancement measures of increasing CEF subsidy ceiling to HK$25,000 per applicant and removal of the upper age limit for CEF applicants, are applicable only for courses commencing on or after 1 August 2022.
 
 
Vplus Subsidy Scheme
 
Vplus Subsidy Scheme1 consists of 'Vplus Engineering2' and 'Vplus Creative Industries'.  The scheme provides tuition fee subsidy for students admitted to designated part-time programmes in the subject areas of construction, engineering, design and information technology.  Successful applicants will be refunded 60% of the tuition fees of eligible programmes, subject to a maximum of HK$45,000 per person (Vplus Engineering) / HK$36,000 (Vplus Creative Industries).  Please visit the webpages below for details.
 
 
1  Applicants cannot apply for Vplus Subsidy Scheme and Continuing Education Fund (CEF) for the same programme. 
2 'Vplus Engineering' was formerly known as Engineering Training Subsidy Scheme (ETSS).