Abstract
In this paper, we reviewed the current university funding situation in Hong Kong for the past five years. We also reviewed the trend of student enrollment numbers to tertiary education in contrast to the support of the continuous education fund (CEF) for citizens. How personal development was build and how the programs were organized will be discussed. An in-depth analysis of the Industrial Attachment (IA) program (sometimes may be called internship program) was studied via three case studies, to understand the program arrangement, effectiveness, and impaction towards the sense of continuous education from the students’ perspective. The case studies we provided include former students sharing their training experience gained from working in a software development house, a financial institute, and a school respectively. Results showed that the industrial attachment program gives various positive implications to the participants in academic, career, and life-long perspectives, which life-long implication is the one affected students the most among the three.
Highlights
In Hong Kong, there are 30 post-secondary schools offering tertiary education to Hong Kong students in which 22 of them are degree-awarding institutes [1] and 8 of them are university grants committee (UGC) funded [2]
This study found that all the University Grants Committee (UGC) funded universities in Hong Kong provide an industrial attachment program or something similar to their students
I believe the industrial attachment program is more suitable for people who do not look into the opportunities available in the market actively, and for those who don’t want to take risk
Summary
In Hong Kong, there are 30 post-secondary schools offering tertiary education to Hong Kong students in which 22 of them are degree-awarding institutes [1] and 8 of them are university grants committee (UGC) funded [2]. The UGC-funded schools are sponsored by the Hong Kong government. The total number of undergraduate’s enrollment is increasing, so does the students under a research postgraduate degree which amount to around 11.14% increase in the same time frame. Taught postgraduate number has decreased slightly from 3,475 in the year 2012/13 to 2932 in 2018/19 (-15.62%). The total number of postgraduate enrollments remains steady, with 10,593 in the year 2012/13 to 10,843 in the year 2018/19 [3]. The Hong Kong government has established a Continuing Education Fund (CEF) in 2002 which aimed at subsidizing. We conducted an in-depth analysis to understand how the industrial attachment program affects students’ perception to their future career and their willingness towards pursuing continuous education and advance study in their career
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