To promote quality enhancement of the self-financing post-secondary sector, the Education Bureau (EDB) set up the Quality Enhancement Support Scheme (QESS) under the Self-financing Post-secondary Education Fund (SPEF) to support worthwhile non-works projects or initiatives that help enhance the quality of teaching and learning for students and teachers and the sector as a whole.
Non-profit-making education institutions offering full-time locally-accredited self-financing sub-degree or bachelor’s degree (including top-up degree) programmes are eligible to apply. Other related bodies such as the federations of these education institutions and quality assurance agencies may also apply.
The Scheme supports three types of projects, namely, Theme-based Projects, Open-ended Projects, and Industrial Attachment Projects. For details of the Scheme and the previous successful applications, please view the official site of Quality Enhancement Support Scheme.
EDB is now inviting applications for QESS 2024/25 exercise. Under each round of application, each institution can only submit a maximum of TWO applications each for Theme-based Projects and Open-ended Projects. Each institution may submit or be involved in only ONE application (individual or joint) for Industrial Attachment Project, for which the University will coordinate to prepare.
Application Procedure
| Action | Timeline |
|---|---|
| Applicants submit a two-page preliminary proposal with a budget plan (can be included as an Appendix) to the UTLQC Secretary (Ms Mabel Lai) (Please find the attached template for preliminary proposal for your reference) | 2 December 2024 (Monday) |
| UTLQC meeting incorporating presentation session by QESS applicants – Project teams present their proposals at the meeting – Selection process conducted by UTLQC | December 2024 – early January 2025 |
| Selected teams will be invited to prepare full QESS proposals for submission to UTLQC for further feedback | by January 2025 |
| Deadline for submission of full QESS proposal to UTLQC | by 24 January 2025 (Friday) |
| UTLQC provides comments on the full proposals | by 7 February 2025 (Friday) |
| Project teams finalise their proposals and upload their proposals to QESS online system | 10-21 February 2025 |
| UTLQC submits the finalised proposals to President for endorsement and prepares for the online submission process | By 24 February 2025 (Monday) |
| Deadline for submission to EDB | 28 February 2025 (Friday) |