Hong Kong Representative:
Fred Wu
Careers and Employability Consultant
HongKong@AsiaPacificCDA.org
1. Employment Situation of Graduates of Full-time UGC-funded Programmes by Level of Study, 2021/22 (as at 31.12.2022)
Data source: https://cdcf.ugc.edu.hk/cdcf/searchStatSiteReport.action
2. Unemployment rate: 2.8%
Data source: https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/scode200.html
3. Top 100 Universities in the World (According to the QS World University Rankings 2024)4. Career Planning Workshop for Secondary School Students
A. Labour Force, Employment and Unemployment
Hong Kong’s unemployment rate drops to 3.0%
B. Hong Kong’s talent attraction scheme
To attract more high-quality talent to come and meeting Hong Kong's development needs.
Source: https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202305/16/P2023051600337.htm
InvestHK offers a wide range of complimentary, customised, and confidential services to help support businesses and individuals who settle in Hong Kong, including:
Source: https://www.liveworkhongkong.gov.hk/en/why-hong-kong.html
Source: https://www.talentlist.gov.hk/en/index.html
C. Article to share:
In a survey of a total of 877 university undergraduates in Hong Kong. Five reasons to do an internship:
(1) gaining a better understanding of the workplace culture (51.9%);
(2) creating a more attractive resume (51.0%)
(3) applying knowledge in an actual work context (44.7%)
(4) exploring career development (44%)
(5) learning beyond the classroom
Youth Research Centre. (2020). Enriching students’ internship experiences in the next normal. https://yrc.hkfyg.org.hk/en/2020/11/30/enriching-students-internship-experiences-in-the-next-normal/
Employment:
Hong Kong’s unemployment rate drops to 4.1%
Looking for Talents
Over the past two years, the local workforce shrank by about 140 000.
Career development workshop
A. COVID-information
B. Employment market
Hong Kong's latest unemployment rate dropped to 5.1 percent as the city's labor minister expected the market to further improve following relaxed Covid curbs and distribution of the second HK$5,000 consumption voucher.
C. Employment Situation of Graduates of Full-time UGC-funded Programmes by Level of Study, 2020/21
D. Other
A local enterprise piloted 4.5-Day Work Week This Summer
Some companies allowed their employees to work from home 1 or 2 days per week
Overview
COVID
Geography
Land area of Hong Kong
Sq. km (as of Year 2020) |
|
Hong Kong Island |
80.7 |
Kowloon |
47.0 |
New Territories and Islands |
982.5 |
Total |
1 110.2 |
Population
Year 2020 |
||
Sex |
Number ('000) |
% |
Male |
3 416.3 |
45.7 |
Female |
4 065.5 |
54.3 |
Total |
7 481.8 |
100.0 |
Mid-year population by age group
Year 2020 |
||
Age Group |
Number ('000) |
% |
Under 15 |
869.3 |
11.6 |
15 - 34 |
1 690.2 |
22.6 |
35 - 64 |
3 550.5 |
47.5 |
65 and over |
1 371.8 |
18.3 |
Total |
7 481.8 |
100.0 |
Labour force by age group
Year 2020 |
||
Age Group |
Number ('000) |
% |
Under 15 |
240 |
6.2 |
15 - 34 |
1 876 |
48.2 |
35 - 64 |
1 614 |
41.5 |
65 and over |
158 |
4.1 |
Total |
3 888 |
100.0 |
Distribution of Composite Employment Estimates by industry section
Industry section |
2020 (%) |
Manufacturing |
2.3 |
Electricity and gas supply |
0.2 |
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation services |
0.2 |
Construction |
8.4 |
Import and export trade |
10.5 |
Wholesale |
1.4 |
Retail |
7.8 |
Transportation, storage, postal and courier services |
7.8 |
Accommodationand food services |
6.4 |
Information and communications |
3.1 |
Financing and insurance |
7.6 |
Real estate |
3.9 |
Professional, scientific and technical services |
5.6 |
Administrative and support services |
5.4 |
Public administration |
3.3 |
Education |
6.0 |
Human health and social work services |
5.9 |
Arts, entertainment and recreation |
1.4 |
Other social and personal services |
12.6 |
Others |
0.1 |
All industry sections |
100.0 |
Total employment ('000) |
3 653.8 |
Statistics on Students of Programmes Funded through the University Grants Committee
According to the information of the Census and Statistics Department, the proportion of Hong Kong population who have attained higher education continues to increase over the years. By 2018, nearly a quarter of the population aged 15 and over was educated to first degree level or above.
The University Grants Committee (UGC) is a non-statutory body which advises the Government of the Special Administrative Region on the funding and strategic development of higher education in Hong Kong. This article presents and analyses the statistics on university students of programmes funded through the UGC after the implementation of the New Academic Structure from 2012/13 academic year.
The UGC, established in 1965, advises the Government on the funding allocation to its funded universities and offers impartial and respected expert advice to the Government on the strategic development of higher education in Hong Kong. The Administration and the UGC adopt a triennial planning cycle in determining the recurrent funding for the UGC-funded sector, which provides the much needed certainty of funding over a three-year period. For each triennium, the UGC engages in a substantive process of discussion with the universities on their Planning Exercise Proposals (PEPs) and student number targets. Subject to a predetermined Cash Limit from the Administration for the entire sector, the UGC will then make triennial funding recommendations for the 8 UGC-funded universities to the Chief Executive, reflecting the indicative student number targets and the approved PEPs as settled with the universities. The recommendations, after deliberated upon within the Administration, will be put to the LegCo Panel on Education for consultation, and to the Finance Committee for endorsement of the financial implications.
At present, there are 8 universities in Hong Kong funded through the UGC:
Institutions
Hong Kong has 22 degree-awarding higher education institutions, including:
Note:
(1) – University Grants Committee-funded universities
(2) – publicly-funded institution
Secondary School Education
In the 2021/22 school year, there are 591 primary schools, 508 secondary day schools and 63 special schools.
The Government's policy objectives are to: