Financial Assistance

   

• 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 Scheme¹  consists of “Vplus Engineering²”, “Vplus Creative Industries” and “Vplus Health and Life Sciences”. The scheme provides tuition fee subsidy for students admitted to designated part-time programmes in the subject areas of construction, engineering, design, information technology and Health and Life Sciences . 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 and Vplus Health and Life Sciences). Please visit the webpages below for details.

Vplus Engineering
Vplus Creative Industries
Vplus Health and Life Sciences

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).