📋 Tender Overview
The Education Bureau EDB today December 30 announced that the 202526 round of applications under the Enhancement and Startup Grant Scheme for Selffinancing Postsecondary Education opens for applications from today to April 15 2026
The Scheme aims to provide financial support for eligible selffinancing postsecondary education institutions to develop and enhance programmes that meet market needs but require high startup costs reducing institutions reliance on tuition fees to recover the costs thus relieving the financial burden on students It also supports institutions to better develop their own strengths and niche areas strengthening strategic coordination among institutions
Eligible institutions are as follows
a Hong Kong Metropolitan University
b approved postsecondary colleges under the Post Secondary Colleges Ordinance Cap 320 and
c postsecondary institutions registered under the Education Ordinance Cap 279
The Scheme subsidises fulltime locally accredited local selffinancing subdegree and undergraduate including topup degree programmes covering both the development of new programmes and the enhancement of existing ones To enhance teaching and learning in designated academic areas it supports projects of the following nature
a significant developmentenhancement of programme curricula and pedagogies
b recruitmentprofessional development of faculty members and teaching staff
c procurementupgrade of marketstandard equipmentfacilities to meet academic and professional requirements
d provision of newimprovement to existing disciplinespecific campus facilitiesinfrastructure and
e other relevant disciplinespecific expenditure areas aligned with the objectives of the scheme
Funding for each proposal will generally be capped at 42 million The Committee on Selffinancing Postsecondary Education will advise the Secretary for Education regarding the comparative merits of the proposals
In the 202425 round of applications two out of seven applications were approved with a total grant of about 48 million which supported the aviation services and surveying sectors in meeting the keen manpower demand of the relevant industries Details of the projects are as follows
Institution
Project
Approved grant
in million dollars
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Establishment of a Flight Simulation Laboratory for the Bachelor of Business Administration with Honours in Aviation Services Management Programme
224
Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Development of an Applied Degree in Surveying and Dispute Resolution
251
The EDB will maintain close liaison with relevant institutions to make best use of the resources of the Scheme and launch the relevant programmes as soon as practicable
Further details of the Scheme and the approved projects are available at the designated website wwwcspeeduhkenesgshtml
