Gifted Education Fund: Off-school Advanced Learning Programmes (2024/25 school year) now open for application
Education
Bureau has always attached great importance to nurturing talent and actively
promoting schools to develop and utilise school-based talent pool as a way to
strengthen the identification and nurturing of gifted students. We encourage
schools to nominate more of them to take part in off-school gifted programmes
and competitions.
The
Gifted Education Fund supports various orgainsations to provide “Off-school
Advanced Learning Programmes (OSALPs)” for exceptionally gifted primary
and secondary school students. In the
current school year, nine new programmes have been rolled out, covering such themes
as STEAM (including quantum computing, artificial intelligence), humanities and
social sciences, as well as entrepreneurship. These programmes enable
exceptionally gifted students to acquire high-quality and challenging learning
experiences in broader areas and even cross-disciplinary fields, further
enhancing their abilities and achieving higher accomplishments.
To
provide focused training for the exceptionally gifted students selected by Hong
Kong Academy of Gifted Education (HKAGE) and to expand the talent pool of
gifted students, we will continue to enhance the training for student members
of HKAGE and provide them with more opportunities for advanced learning. From the 2024/25 school year onwards, all
OSALPs funded by the Gifted Education Fund will only be open to student members
of HKAGE.
Applications
are now open for Off-school Advanced Learning Programmes (2024/25 school year)!
Schools can make good use of their school-based talent pools and nominate student
members of HKAGE in schools for suitable programmes.
For
student members of HKAGE to know more about the programmes or to apply for
them, please visit:
www.hkage.edu.hk/en-us/articles/osalp
