24-52  Student Enrolment by Type of Educational and Training Institution
					(person)
Type	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Kindergarten①	143725	136096	130157	149141	140783
Primary School	483218	468792	447137	425864	410516
Secondary School	465926	470487	476954	482273	484195
Day School	461289	467223	474054	478440	480775
Lower Secondary	251556	251463	253619	254879	255992
Upper Secondary	150705	157009	160916	161901	161461
Secondary 6 and Secondary 7	59028	58751	59519	61660	63322
Evening School	4637	3264	2900	3833	3420
Special Education School②	9889	10177	8556	7734	7737
Special School	9648	10082	8468	7697	7720
Special Classes in Ordinary School	241	95	88	37	17
Approved Post-secondary Colleges③④   (full-time)	4011	4043	3960	4069	1381
Other Colleges⑤	3695	3953	5983	7146	8163
Day Course	2646	2977	4427	5252	6166
Evening Course	1049	976	1556	1894	1997
University Grants Committee (UGC) -funded	85602	90355	91865	91786	91675
Institution⑥
Full-time	68624	73833	77922	81829	83883
Sub-degree⑦	16668	20034	23948	26429	26618
Undergraduate⑦	45669	46602	47489	49159	50792
Taught Postgraduate	2446	2574	1930	1458	1411
Research Postgraduate⑧	3841	4623	4555	4783	5062
Part-time	16978	16522	13943	9957	7793
Sub-degree	4372	4293	3697	2629	2116
Undergraduate	3501	3527	3409	2466	1765
Taught Postgraduate	8501	8100	6159	4170	3257
Research Postgraduate⑧	604	602	678	691	654
Hong Kong Shue Yan University④    (full-time)	-	-	-	-	3335
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Full-time	743	749	756	752	736
Non-degree⑨	446	450	440	418	388
Degree	297	299	316	334	348
Part-time
Degree	-	-	-	-	5
The Open University of Hong Kong
University-based⑦⑩	25115	22473	20400	18552	17223
Full-time	85	210	459	1256	2148
Distance Learning/Part-time Face-to-face	25030	22263	19941	17296	15075
Li Ka Shing Institute of Professional and	-	9655	9441	9046	9920
Continuing Education⑦⑪⑫
Full-time	-	39	62	86	53
Part-time	-	9616	9379	8960	9867
Vocational Training Council⑫⑬	59714	59694	60074	61662	60123
Full-time	31004	33261	36663	40173	41926
Craft Level Courses⑭⑮	4226	4942	4608	4210	3203
Technician Level Courses⑯	15049	13716	11857	10419	9442
Higher Technician Level Courses⑯	11729	14603	20198	25544	29281
Part-time	28710	26433	23411	21489	18197
Craft Level Courses⑭	6030	5079	4084	3466	3210
Technician Level Courses⑯	10623	10755	10074	9977	7708
Higher Technician Level Courses⑯	12057	10599	9253	8046	7279
Construction Industry Training Authority
Full-time	1456	1664	1236	966	932
Craft Level Courses⑭⑰⑯	1115	1417	1063	719	693
Technician Level Courses⑯⑱	341	247	173	247	239
Clothing Industry Training Authority	615	853	1191	913	961
Full-time	488	607	646	552	555
Craft Level Courses⑭	47	46	49	51	57
Technician Level Courses⑯	441	561	597	501	498
Part-time	127	246	545	361	406
Craft Level Courses⑭	127	246	545	361	406
Hospital Authority⑲
Full-time	108	213*	311*	302	411
The Prince Philip Dental Hospital	101	90	93	88	80
Full-time	95	90	88	88	76
Part-time	6	-	5	-	4
Project Yi Jin	4170	4529	6585	5936	9360
Full-time	2804	2880	4363	4147	6462
Part-time	1366	1649	2222	1789	2898
Institutes Offering Adult Education/	210092	201073	220400	235853	186763
Tutorial/Vocational Courses⑫
Day School	110916	94552	115236	108722	84036
Day cum Evening School	-	-	12531	43964	36920
Evening School	99176	106521	92633	83167	65807
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 schools are as at September of the respective years.  Figures for “Institutes
offering adult education/tutorial/vocational courses” are as at October of the respective years.  For vocational and post-secondary education,
beginning and ending months of academic year vary among educational and training institutions.
Figures for vocational and post-secondary education for 2006 are provisional.
①Figures from 2005 onwards include pupils attending kindergarten classes (i.e. nursery, lower and upper classes) in kindergarten-cum-child
care centres upon harmonisation of pre-primary services in September 2005.  Accordingly, they are not directly comparable to figures for
earlier years.
②Figures from 2001 onwards include students of mainstreamed classes in practical schools and skills opportunity schools which were still
undergoing mainstreaming by phase then.  Once the schools concerned completed mainstreaming, their enrolment figures were subsumed
in “Secondary schools”. All practical schools and skills opportunity schools completed mainstreaming respectively in August 2004 and
August 2005.
③Approved post-secondary colleges refer to colleges registered under the Post Secondary Colleges Ordinance.  Chu Hai College of Higher
Education has been registered as an approved post-secondary college as from July 2004.
④“Hong Kong Shue Yan College” changed its title to “Hong Kong Shue Yan University” on 19 December 2006.
Figures prior to 2006 inrespect of Hong Kong Shue Yan College are grouped under “Approved Post-secondary Colleges”.
⑤Other colleges refer to private schools which provide post-secondary courses, such as Hong Kong Adventist College, Hong Kong Buddhist
College, Hong Kong College of Technology and Hang Seng School of Commerce, etc.
⑥Institutions funded by the University Grants Committee (UGC) are City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lingnan
University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and The University of Hong Kong.  Figures refer to students attending UGC-funded
programmes unless otherwise specified.
⑦Figures include students attending full-time accredited self-financing post-secondary programmes.
⑧Starting from 2003, figures also include research postgraduate students counted outside the UGC student number target but wholly funded
by UGC.
⑨Figures include students in certificate, advanced certificate, professional certificate, diploma, advanced diploma and professional diploma
courses.
⑩"University-based"programmes of the Open University of Hong Kong refer to those offered by School of Arts and Social Sciences,School of
Business and Administration,School of Education and Languages,and School of Science and Technology.These schools mainly offer degree
University of Hong Kong on 30 May 1997.
⑪Li Ka Shing Institutes of Professional and Continuing Education, which is one of the five academic units of the Open University of
Hong Kong, offers overseas degree programmes, workplace training and short courses.  Figures are available since 2003.
⑫Figures do not include students attending programmes of the Project Yi Jin.
⑬Figures for the Vocational Training Council refer to students of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (formerly Technical
Colleges and Technical Institutes before 1999), Training and Development Centres, School of Business and Information Systems, Youth
College and Continuing Professional Development Centre (prior to 2006).
⑭Craft level courses are post-secondary 3 courses.
⑮Figures include operative level courses of Training and Development Centres.
⑯Higher technician and technician level courses are post-secondary 5 courses.  Higher technician level courses are more advanced courses.
⑰Figures refer to students of basic craft courses.
⑱Figures refer to students of construction supervisor/technician trainee training courses.
⑲Figures refer to nurse training programmes.
Figures refer to dental training programmes.
Project Yi Jin was launched in October 2000 to provide an alternative route and to expand the continuing education opportunities for
secondary school leavers and adult learners. Students who can successfully complete the programme will be awarded a full certificate
which has been assessed by the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation as comparable to five passes in the Hong Kong Certificate
of Education Examination.