SMART
PEOPLE
CURRENT STATUS
Around 90% of the half-day kindergartens joining the Kindergarten Education Scheme provide free services
12 years' free primary and secondary education
65% of senior secondary students studied one or more STEAM-related elective subjects in 2023/24 and all have to study Mathematics as a core (i.e. compulsory) subject
8 University Grants Committee (UGC) - funded universities
2024/25 academic year (provisional figures)
94 199 students studying UGC-funded undergraduate programmes
- 34 025 (36%) of them studied STEM-related programmes
2024/25 academic year (provisional figures)
13 788 students studying UGC-funded taught and research postgraduate programmes
- 6 901* (50%) of them studied STEM-related postgraduate programmes
(*Excludes additional part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Education)
2023
R&D funding
- Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD)
HK$33,006 million
(+ 10% when compared with 2022 (HK$30,138 million))
2023-24
About 100 000 civil servants attended various I&T-related training
SMART PEOPLE INITIATIVES
