CURRENT STATUS
About 90% of the half-day programmes of kindergartens joining the kindergarten education scheme are free
12 years' free primary and secondary education
60% of senior secondary students studied one or more STEM-related elective subjects in 2019/20 and all have to study Mathematics as a core (i.e. compulsory) subject
8 public universities funded by Government through the University Grants Committee (UGC)
2019/20
86 867 students studying UGC-funded undergraduate programmes
- 30 580 (35%) of them studied STEM-related programmes
2019/20
11 251 students studying UGC-funded taught and research postgraduate programmes
- 5 412 (48%) of them studied STEM-related postgraduate programmes
2019
R&D funding
- Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD)
HK$26,333 million
(+ 8% when compared with 2018 (HK$22,497 million))
2021-22
About 70 000 civil servants attended various I&T-related training
SMART PEOPLE INITIATIVES