24-51 Student Enrolment by Type of Educational and Training Institution
					(person)
Type	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003^
Kindergarten	171138	160921	156202	143725	136096
Primary School
Day School	491851	493979	493075	483218	468792
Evening School	-	-	-	-	-
Secondary School
Day School	453465	456693	456455	461289	467223
Lower Secondary	235874	241616	246132	251556	251463
Upper Secondary	159343	155518	150886	150705	157009
Secondary 6 and Secondary 7	58248	59559	59437	59028	58751
Evening School	11785	10017	8948	4637	3264
Special Education School
Day School	9687	9387	9511	9889	10177
Special School	9499	9181	9354	9648	10082
Special Classes in Ordinary School	188	206	157	241	95
Vocational Training Council①②	58102	56705	58413	60038	59440
Full-time
Craft Level Courses③④	3975	4124	3918	4226	4723
Technician Level Courses⑤	8538	13530	15112	15049	13352
Higher Technician/Technician Level Course⑥	6298	420	364	373	363
Higher Technician Level Courses⑤	3803	7074	8741	11356	14240
Part-time
Craft Level Courses③	10941	8835	8073	6030	5079
Technician Level Courses⑤	14471	12941	10978	10623	10755
Higher Technician Level Courses⑤	10076	9781	11227	12381	10928
Approved Post-secondary Colleges
Full-time	2361	2707	4180	4011	4043
Other Colleges
Day Course	3620	4193	2284	1988	1960
Evening Course	953	1065	979	1049	976
UGC-funded Institution⑦	79917	78295	81664	85602	90355
Full-time
Sub-degree⑧	10887	10284	13830	16668	20034
Undergraduate	44031	44241	44796	45669	46602
Taught Postgraduate	1480	1593	1925	2446	2574
Research Postgraduate	3363	3290	3647	3841	4623*
Part-time
Sub-degree	6192	5188	4537	4372	4293
Undergraduate	3436	3365	3258	3501	3527
Taught Postgraduate	9870	9662	9034	8501	8100
Research Postgraduate	658	672	637	604	602*
The Hong Kong Academy for
Performing Arts
Full-time	704	712	738	743	749
Non-degree ⑨	433	438	452	446	450
Degree	271	274	286	297	299
The Open University of Hong Kong ②⑩	38879	46889	49626	47465	40782
Full-time	-	-	116	113	249
Part-time	38879	46889	49510	47352	40533
Construction Industry Training Authority
Full-time	2336	2169	1859	1456	1440
Craft Level Courses ③(11)	1984	1823	1558	1115	1220
Technician Level Courses ⑤(12)	352	346	301	341	220
Clothing Industry Training Authority	687	525	486	615	853
Full-time
Craft Level Courses ③	55	31	37	47	46
Technician Level Courses ⑤	398	354	359	441	561
Part-time
Craft Level Courses ③	234	140	90	127	246
Hospital Authority (13)
Full-time	-	-	-	108	109
Project Yi Jin (14)	-	3267	4293	4170	4529
Full-time	-	3267	2085	2804	2880
Part-time	-	-	2208	1366	1649
Institutes Offering Adult Education
/Tutorial/Vocational Courses②
Day Courses	64293	75241	88251	110916	94552
Evening Courses	77909	100259	94466	99176	106521
Notes: Figures cover both full-time and part-time students attending long programmes lasting for at least one academic year, except for “institutes
offering adult education/tutorial/vocational courses” where long and short programmes are included.
Figures for kindergarten, primary, secondary and special education school are as at September of the year. Figures for "institutes offering
adult education/tutorial/vocational courses" are as at October of the year. For vocational and post-secondary education, beginning and
ending months of academic year vary among educational and training institutions.
①Figures refer to students of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, Training and Development Centres, and Continuing
Professional Development Centre. Students attending full-time self-financing post-secondary programmes run by the Vocational
Training Council School of Business and Information Systems are also included since the school started to admit students in September 2001.
②Figures do not include students attending programmes of the Project Yi Jin.
③Craft level courses are post-secondary 3 courses.
④Figures also include operative level courses of Training and Development Centres.
⑤Higher technician and technician level courses are post-secondary 5 courses but higher technician level courses are more advanced courses.
⑥Higher technician/technician level courses are post-secondary 5 courses with common first year curricula.
⑦Figures before 2001 refer to students of UGC-funded programmes only. Figures from 1996 onwards include those for the Hong Kong
Institute of Education, which came under the aegis of the University Grants Committee (UGC) with effect from 1 July 1996.
⑧Starting from 2001, figures also include students attending full-time accredited self-financing post-secondary programmes.
⑨Figures include students in certificate, advanced certificate, professional certificate, diploma, advanced diploma and professional diploma
courses.
⑩The Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong was established in June 1989. It was retitled The Open University of Hong Kong on
30 May 1997. Figures for Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education (formerly the Centre for Continuing and
Community Education) are also included.
(11)Figures refer to students of basic craft courses.
(12)Figures refer to students of construction supervisor/technician trainee training courses.
(13)Figures refer to nurse training programmes and are available only since 2002.
(14)Project Yi Jin was launched in October 2000.
^ Provisional figure.
* Starting from 2003, figures also include research postgraduate students counted outside the UGC student number target but wholly funded by
UGC.