On 25 April 2024, the Secretary for Education, Dr Choi Yuk-lin, presented certificates to awardees under the HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund (GSF) and the Self-financing Post-secondary Education Fund (SPEF) for the 2023/24 academic year at the GSF and SPEF Joint Scholarship Presentation Ceremony 2024.  A total of 17 students from YCCECE received scholarships and awards under the Self-financing Post-secondary Scholarship Scheme which honoured their outstanding academic and non-academic achievements. 5 students were awarded the Outstanding Performance Scholarship, 2 students were awarded the Best Progress Award, 1 student was awarded the Talent Development Scholarship and 9 students were awarded the Reaching Out Award. YCCECE student representative Ms. Anna Chammat (BEd (Hons) ECE) and the Dean of Studies Dr Crystal Zheng attended the annual HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund and Self-financing Post-secondary Education Fund Joint Scholarship Presentation Ceremony.  Congratulations once again to all the awardees!

The Self-financing Post-secondary Scholarship Scheme (SPSS) was established under the  Self-financing Post-secondary Education Fund (SPEF) in 2011 to promote the quality and sustainable development of the self-financing post-secondary sector. There are five types of scholarships and awards under the scheme, namely Outstanding Performance Scholarship, Best Progress Award, Talent Development Scholarship, Reaching Out Award and Endeavour Scholarship. These scholarships and awards are offered to students pursuing full-time locally accredited self-financing sub-degree or undergraduate programmes. In the 2023/24 academic year, the SPEF offered scholarships and awards to about 3 800 local and about 300 non-local students. In terms of levels of study, about 2 300 of them pursued undergraduate studies while about 1 800 students were at the sub-degree level.