24-51  Student Enrolment by Type of Educational and Training Institution
					(person)
Type	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004^
Kindergarten	160921	156202	143725	136096	130157
Primary School	493979	493075	483218	468792	447137
Secondary School	466710	465403	465926	470487	476954
Day School	456693	456455	461289	467223	474054
Lower Secondary	241616	246132	251556	251463	253619
Upper Secondary	155518	150886	150705	157009	160916
Secondary 6 and Secondary 7	59559	59437	59028	58751	59519
Evening School	10017	8948	4637	3264	2900
Special Education School	9387	9538	9889	10177	8491
Special School	9181	9381	9648	10082	8403
Special Classes in Ordinary School	206	157	241	95	88
Vocational Training Council①②	56639	58230	59714	59694	59270
Full-time	25148	28220	31004	33261	35768
Craft Level Courses③④	4124	3918	4226	4942	3904
Technician Level Courses⑤	13530	15197	15049	13716	11666
Higher Technician/Technician Level Course⑥	420	364	373	363	384
Higher Technician Level Courses⑤	7074	8741	11356	14240	19814
Part-time	31491	30010	28710	26433	23502
Craft Level Courses③	8835	8073	6030	5079	4084
Technician Level Courses⑤	12941	10893	10623	10755	10074
Higher Technician Level Courses⑤	9715	11044	12057	10599	9344
Approved Post-secondary Colleges     (full-time)	2707	4180	4011	4043	3883
Other Colleges
Day Course	4193	2513	2646	2977	2733
Evening Course	1065	979	1049	976	798
UGC-funded Institution⑦	78295	81664	85602	90355	93776
Full-time	59408	64198	68624	73833	79833
Sub-degree⑧	10284	13830	16668	20034	25859
Undergraduate	44241	44796	45669	46602	47489
Taught Postgraduate	1593	1925	2446	2574	1930
Research Postgraduate ⑨	3290	3647	3841	4623	4555
Part-time	18887	17466	16978	16522	13943
Sub-degree	5188	4537	4372	4293	3697
Undergraduate	3365	3258	3501	3527	3409
Taught Postgraduate	9662	9034	8501	8100	6159
Research Postgraduate ⑨	672	637	604	602	678
The Hong Kong Academy for
Performing Arts
Full-time	712	738	743	749	756
Non-degree⑩	438	452	446	450	440
Degree	274	286	297	299	316
The Open University of Hong Kong②⑧(11)	36847	41826	39637	36550	38732
Full-time	-	116	113	249	521
Part-time	36847	41710	39524	36301	38211
Construction Industry Training Authority
Full-time	2169	1859	1456	1664	1236
Craft Level Courses③(12)	1823	1558	1115	1417	1063
Technician Level Courses⑤(13)	346	301	341	247	173
Clothing Industry Training Authority	525	486	615	853	1191
Full-time	385	396	488	607	646
Craft Level Courses③	31	37	47	46	49
Technician Level Courses⑤	354	359	441	561	597
Part-time	140	90	127	246	545
Craft Level Courses③	140	90	127	246	545
Hospital Authority(14)
Full-time	-	-	108	217	317
Project Yi Jin(15)	3267	4293	4170	4529	6585
Full-time	3267	2085	2804	2880	4363
Part-time	-	2208	1366	1649	2222
Institutes Offering Adult Education
/Tutorial/Vocational Courses②
Day Courses	75241	88251	110916	94552	127767
Evening Courses	100259	94466	99176	106521	92633
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.
Enrolment for school education refers to the number of pupils enrolled in the school register as at the beginning of a school year(usually in
September). For vocational and post-secondary education, beginning and  ending months of academic year vary among 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 all students of UGC-funded programmes, except for research postgraduate (RPg) programmes of which only
students counted within the formal time limit and within the  UGC student number target are included.  Figures from 2001 onwards also
include students attending full-time accredited self-financing post-secondary programmes.  Figures from 2003 onwards also include RPg
students counted within the formal time limit and outside the UGC student number target but wholly funded by UGC.
⑧Starting from 2001, figures also include students attending full-time accredited self-financing post-secondary programmes.
⑨Figures before 2003 refer to RPg students counted within the formal time limit and within the UGC student number target. Figures from 2003
onwards include also RPg students counted within the formal time limit and outside the UGC student number target but wholly funded by
UGC.
⑩Figures include students in certificate, advanced certificate, professional certificate, diploma, advanced diploma and professional diploma
courses.
(11)Figures for Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and Continuing Education are also included.
(12)Figures refer to students of basic craft courses.  (13)Figures refer to students of construction supervisor/technician trainee training courses.
(14)Figures refer to nurse training programmes and are available only since 2002.
(15)Project Yi Jin was launched in October 2000.                     ^  Provisional figure.