Adult Education Subvention Scheme

To equip adults with daily living skills, the Adult Education Subvention Scheme (AESS) provides subvention for charitable institutions exempted from tax under the Inland Revenue Ordinance (Cap.112) to run basic adult education programmes within a prescribed purview of the Scheme. In the 2024/25 academic year, 57 such charitable institutions are subvented to run 639 adult education programmes within the following purview:

Basic Chinese literacy courses;
Basic Putonghua courses;
Basic English literacy courses;
Basic Computer courses;
General education courses;
Courses of social, moral and family education;
Reorientation courses for new arrivals and ethnic minorities;
Special education courses.

AESS 2024/25

The lists of subvented programmes under AESS 2024/25 are as follows:

Subvented Programmes

Enquiries

Details of the programmes can be obtained from the participating non-government organisations or can be downloaded at this webpage. For Scheme applications and enquiries, please contact the Manpower Team of the Labour and Welfare Bureau during office hours.

Tel : 2810 3875
Address : 10/F, West Wing, Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong
Email : aess@lwb.gov.hk