Eligibility

Persons who meet the following criteria can apply for the CEF:

• Hong Kong residents who have the right of abode or the right to land or to remain in Hong Kong without restriction, or holders of a one-way permit from Mainland China;
• Applicants must be aged 18 or above when the CEF reimbursable course commenced and the application must be submitted within one year upon the successful completion of the course. Late applications will not be accepted;
• Have enrolled in and paid the tuition fee for the CEF reimbursable course; and
• Have submitted to the College a consent form for disclosure of personal data to the Specified Public Authorities for the purposes of fee reimbursement before the commencement of the CEF reimbursable course.

Reimbursement Procedures

• Applicants are only required to complete Application Form [SFO 313 (2022)], which is a combined application form for both account opening and fee reimbursement. This combined form is also applicable to applicants who have opened a CEF account before 1 April 2019 to apply for fee reimbursement only.
• Application Form [SFO 313 (2022)]can be obtained from the Office of the Continuing Education Fund (OCEF) and District Offices or downloaded from the OCEF website.  Applicants may also fill in the application form online on the website of GovHK and print the completed form.
• The completed application form together with the letter of certification issued by the College after successful completion of the reimbursable course and a copy of supporting documents should be submitted to the OCEF WITHIN ONE YEAR upon successful completion of the reimbursable course.
• Successful completion means you have passed the reimbursable course, attained the overall mark of 50% of assessment(s) as prescribed for the course and have attended no less than 70% of the contactable hours of the course.

Attention:

In respect of any courses for which the fees are to be reimbursed, upon seeking reimbursement of the fees, the applicant must not have obtained any other public funds or assistance under any other publicly-funded financial assistance schemes for the same course, such as grants or loans from the Financial Assistance Scheme for Post-secondary Students administered by the Student Finance Office.

Enquiries

For details about CEF, please contact the OCEF.

Office of the Continuing Education Fund

Address: Units 07-11, 25/F, CDW Building, 388 Castle Peak Road, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
24-hour Hotline: 3142-2277
Email: cef_sfo@wfsfaa.gov.hk
Website: www.wfsfaa.gov.hk/cef

HKCC Scholarships, Financial Assistance and Student Support Fund

HKCC offers a wide portfolio of scholarships, financial assistance and student support fund to students every year. The College regards the provision of scholarships and student support funds as part and parcel of its education approach and vision – the provision of a holistic and quality education. Our aim is to unleash students’ potential and broaden their horizons, which will in turn enhance their academic and career prospects.

*The College reserves the right to revise the information on the scholarships, finance assistance and student support fund above without prior notice.

For Full-time and Part-time Students of 2022/23 Intake Cohorts

All students of PolyU SPEED programmes leading to a degree awarded by PolyU, no matter full-time or part-time, may get scholarships of up to a total of HK$60,000 (admission and progression scholarships of up to HK$45,000 + other curricular and co-curricular scholarships of up to HK$15,000).

(HKCC graduates: please go to  this page.)

^# The scholarships and studentships are exclusive to each other. In order words, a student will not be awarded the Admission Scholarship and Articulation Studentship at the same time. 

For Full-time and Part-time Students of All Intake Cohorts

Admission Scholarship for Full-time Students^

Progressing Scholarship for Full-time Students

Admission Scholarship for Part-time Students^

Progressing Scholarship for Part-time Students

^{^}The scholarships and studentships are applicable to applicants who have submitted the application for admission to PolyU-SPEED award articulation degree programmes on or before Friday, 24 June 2022 and are successfully enrolled into a PolyU-SPEED award programme in the 2022/23 Intake Cohort.  Current HKCC final-year students who are graduating in 2021/22 are not required to submit application for admission to PolyU-SPEED award articulation degree programmes according to the arrangement of articulation pathway within CPCE.

^*The Award GPA ≥ 3.0 in previous sub-degree study and the GPA ≥ 3.3 upon completion of Year-1/Year-2/Year-3 study should be among the top tier of all students registered in the respective programmes in the 2022/23 intake cohort of the respective Academic Divisions.

Outstanding Co-curricular Achievement Scholarship 

Top Student Award 

Learning Support Fund 

Lifelong Learning Studentship for Full-time Students^{#^}

Lifelong Learning Studentship for Part-time Students^{#^}

^#The scholarships and studentships are exclusive to each other. In order words, a student will not be awarded the Admission Scholarship and Lifelong Learning Studentship at the same time.

^{^}The scholarships are applicable to applicants who have submitted the application for admission to PolyU-SPEED award articulation degree programmes on or before Friday, 24 June 2022 and are successfully enrolled into a PolyU-SPEED award programme in the 2022/23 Intake Cohort.

⁺The Award GPA in previous sub-degree study should be among the top tier of all students registered in the respective programmes in the 2022/23 intake cohort of the respective Academic Divisions.