📋 Tender Overview
The Education Bureau EDB today July 9 announced the completion of the selection process for the fifth cohort of the School Nominations Direct Admission Scheme SNDAS
A total of 847 valid SNDAS nominations were received from 433 secondary schools for the fifth cohort In the past few months the eight University Grants Committee UGCfunded universities participating in the Scheme conducted interviews with the nominated students and carefully considered their individual merits Direct admission offers were eventually issued to 325 nominees prior to the release of the 2026 Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education HKDSE Examination results of which 319 students accepted the offers and will commence study on their chosen UGCfunded undergraduate programmes in September 2026 A breakdown on the offers accepted by students in various disciplines of study is provided in the Annex
To promote a culture of multifaceted excellence the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau has launched the Multitalent Development Scholarship MDS in the 202526 academic year funded by the Board of Management of the Chinese Permanent Cemeteries for admittees of the SNDAS demonstrating outstanding achievements in arts sports andor community service on top of the firm offers made under the SNDAS
Among the students being formally admitted to their respective universities under the SNDAS each of the eight UGCfunded universities will be invited to nominate SNDAS admittees demonstrating an outstanding performance in arts sports andor community service for awarding scholarships in addition to the firm offers made The quotas of scholarship nominations will be distributed proportionally having regard to the number of students admitted to each university by the SNDAS Each awardee not subject to means testing will be granted a scholarship of 10000 per year across hisher fouryear tuition period Universities shall enjoy the autonomy to select and nominate awardees for the MDS
The sixth cohort of the SNDAS will be open for applications by Secondary Six students taking the 2027 HKDSE Examinations and commencing their undergraduate studies in September 2027 Application details will be announced in due course
The SNDAS was introduced in 2021 as part of the EDBs response to the recommendations made by the Task Force on Review of School Curriculum which included enhancing flexibility in university admissions The eight UGCfunded universities designated over 300 publicly funded undergraduate programmes for the fifth cohort of the SNDAS and set admission criteria that are not based on HKDSE Examination results for individual programmes
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