The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) today launches the third phase of its continuing education subsidy scheme, which entitles residents aged at least 15 to get a 6,000 pataca subsidy to enrol in courses run by the city’s various continuing education institutions from now until the end of 2019.
The bureau held a press conference yesterday to announce details of its “Continuing Education and Development Programme 2017-2019” in its premises in Nam Van.The government first launched the subsidy scheme in 2011 which ran until the end of 2013, with each person then able to receive a 5,000 pataca subsidy. In the second phase of the scheme, the subsidy was raised to 6,000 patacas, was launched in 2014 and ran until the end of last year.
Leong Vai Kei (right), who heads the Education Department of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), speaks during yesterday’s press conference about the continuing education subsidy scheme at its office, while Wong Chi Iong, the acting chief of the DSEJ Continuing Education Division, looks on. Photo: Tony Wong
