Following is a question by the Hon Gary Zhang and a written reply by the Acting Secretary for Education, Dr Sze Chun-fai, in the Legislative Council today (November 27):
Question:
On pursuing studies at local universities, will the Government inform this Council:
(1) of the respective numbers of persons admitted to the bachelor's degree programmes of local universities through the Joint University Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS) and the Non-Joint University Programmes Admissions System (Non-JUPAS) on the basis of their Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE) results in each of the past three years, and set out in Table 1 a breakdown by their HKDSE results;
Table 1
| Total grade points in the best five subjects | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |||
| JUPAS | Non-JUPAS | JUPAS | Non-JUPAS | JUPAS | Non-JUPAS | |
| 15 points or less | ||||||
| 16 to 18 points | ||||||
| …… | ||||||
| 31 to 33 points | ||||||
| 34 to 35 points | ||||||
(2) of the respective numbers of persons sitting for the HKDSE in 2022 to 2025 as private candidates, and set out in Table 2 a breakdown by (i) Hong Kong permanent residents, (ii) Hong Kong residents not being permanent residents and (iii) non-Hong Kong residents;
Table 2
| Year | (i) | (ii) | (iii) |
| 2022 | |||
| …… | |||
| 2025 |
(3) of the distribution of results of candidates sitting for the HKDSE as private candidates in the past three years, and set out in Table 3 a breakdown by (i) Hong Kong permanent residents, (ii) Hong Kong residents not being permanent residents and (iii) non-Hong Kong residents; and
Table 3
| Total grade points in the best five subjects | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||||||
| (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | (i) | (ii) | (iii) | |
| 15 points or less | |||||||||
| 16 to 18 points | |||||||||
| …… | |||||||||
| 31 to 33 points | |||||||||
| 34 to 35 points | |||||||||
(4) among the students admitted to the bachelor's degree programmes of local universities through JUPAS over the past three years, of the number of private candidates holding dependent visas (i.e. document category LS5)?
Reply:
President,
(1) The numbers of students admitted to first-year first-degree programmes funded by the University Grants Committee (UGC) through the Joint University Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS) and non-JUPAS with the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE) results in the past three years are set out below:
| Academic year | With HKDSE results | Total | |
| Admitted via JUPAS | Admitted via non-JUPAS | ||
| 2021/22 | 12 225 | 81 | 12 306 |
| 2022/23 | 12 178 | 19 | 12 197 |
| 2023/24 | 12 590 | 21 | 12 611 |
The admission results of new students of individual institutions participating in JUPAS can be found on the JUPAS website at www.jupas.edu.hk.
(2) There are no restrictions on the nationalities of candidates sitting for the HKDSE, nor is there any requirement for applicants to use a specified type of identity document. Individual students may, depending on their circumstances, provide valid identity documents other than Hong Kong Identity Cards (HKID cards) when registering for the HKDSE. Therefore, the nationality of a candidate and whether the candidate is a permanent resident of Hong Kong cannot be confirmed solely on the basis of the type of identity document concerned. The numbers of students who registered for the HKDSE as private candidates in the last four cohorts (from 2022 to 2025) and, among them, the numbers of those who registered with documents other than HKID cards are set out in the table below:
| Year | No. of private candidates registered | Among which, the no. of those who registered with documents other than HKID cards |
| 2022 | 6 959 | 295 |
| 2023 | 7 637 | 238 |
| 2024 | 7 431 | 549 |
| 2025 (As at October 28, 2024) |
9 410 | 1 027 |
(3) The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority does not keep individual statistics on the results of private candidates, and the statistics do not include personal data such as the nationalities of the candidates and whether they are permanent residents of Hong Kong.
(4) The Education Bureau does not collect data on whether students admitted to UGC-funded programmes through JUPAS are holders of dependant visas or whether they are HKDSE private candidates.
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