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HKACEP New Education Scholarship Enhancement Programme
What's News | 2019-05-10

HKACEP New Education Scholarship Enhancement Programme

HKACEP Education Scholarship plays an important role in provision of support to retiring or retired athletes for pursuing better academic qualifications. In order to effectively utilise the resources and to encourage more devoted athletes to join the programme, HKACEP relaxed the sports achievements of application requirements and included the postgraduate or master course into the scholarship programme.  The new application requirements are listed as follows:

 

Application Requirements:

-  Retiring and retired athletes up to 6 years after their athletic retirement; and

-  Athletes nominated by their respective NSAs*; and

-  Full-time athletes**/ Part-time*** (only applicable for sports of East Asian Games#) as members of Hong Kong Team who have served for at least 4 years or more; and

-  Athletes as members of Hong Kong Team, who have achieved the following results: (i) Top 8 places at Olympic Games (Summer or Winter), World Championship, World Cup (Finals) and Asian Games (Summer or Winter) or (ii) Medalist at Asian Championships, East Asian Games (1993-2013), National Games, World University Games/ Championships, Asian Cup (Finals) and World Cup Series.

 

(For athletes who do not meet the above requirements, HKACEP Committee may take into consideration on case by case basis.)

 

Athletes who meet the above requirements are eligible to apply for the following 6 scholarship programmes:

Scholarship Programme

Ceiling amount of subvention

1. Scholarship Programme for Vocational Skills Training (C-03)

Short-term programme (less than 1 year) : HK$20,000

Long term programmes (1 to 2 years) : HK$120,000

2. Scholarship Programme for Post-Secondary Education (E-03)

3. Language Enrichment Course (E-04)

HK$12,000

4. Scholarship Programme for Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Master Course (E-05/05M)

Undergraduate programme (max. 5 years for full-time or part-time programme): HK$240,000

Postgraduate or Master programme (max. 4 years for full-time or part-time programme): HK$150,000

Athletes can only enjoy the benefit of this scholarship programme for either their first undergraduate / postgraduate / master programme.

5. Academic Enhancement Scheme for Post-Secondary (EPS-06)

HK$24,000

6. Academic Enhancement Scheme for Undergraduate (EU-06)

For more information, please contact us at 2504 8188.

 

* NSAs shall be interpreted as the Member National Sports Associations of SF&OC HK, China.

** Definition of full-time athletes: athletes engaged in a minimum of 25 hours training per week. Justification of the respective athletes’ status and definition of full-time would be subject to the confirmation of respective NSAs

*** Definition of part-time athletes: athletes engaged in a minimum of 15 hours training per week. Justification of the respective athletes’ status and definition of part-time would be subject to the confirmation of respective NSAs

Sports of East Asian Games (1993 to 2003), includes: Athletics, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Billiard, Boxing, Cycling, Dance Sports, Dragon Boat, Fencing, Football, Gymnastics, Handball, Hockey, Judo, Karate, Rowing, Rugby, Shooting, Squash, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis, Tenpin Bowling, Volleyball, Weightlifting, Windsurfing, Wrestling and Wushu.

 

Remark:    

(i)         Junior Category sports achievement would not be considered.

(ii)        Athletes can only enjoy the benefit of each scholarship programme once.