Community & Higher Education Service (CHES) operates 41 educational centres throughout the territory to provide education and training within their local communities.  The centres have a combined enrollment of 60,000 each year.
The Service offers a wide range of learning opportunities.  These include education leading to academic credentials, education for general interests, education for the aged, new arrivals and less-educated women, workforce training and retraining for adaptation to rapid technological developments.

   

Academic Programmes range from adult literacy through basic education to studies leading to higher education and professional qualifications.

The Work-related Programme for working adults comprises the Employees Retraining Programme, the Continuing Education Fund Reimbursable Programme, the Skills-upgrading Programme, the Extension Programme, Youth Pre-employment Training Programme and Youth Work Experience and Training Scheme.

General interest courses enable learners to enrich and develop their knowledge of various fields.

Secondary school collaborated programmes including the offer of Yi Jin programmes and Applied Learning programmes; and the Other Learning Experiences under the New Senior Secondary curriculum.

School-based programmes and Community-based programmes to cope with the development of primary and secondary school education.

The International Programme encompasses a wide variety of programmes which the Service conducts in collaboration with local and overseas higher education institutions.

The Caritas Cyberspace Education Institute provides wider access to learning for individuals through web-based learning.
 
   

To facilitate the growth of a learning society through the promotion of lifelong learning.

To offer an education provision with open access and participation to those in need of education, which will better equip them in literacy, work skills, further academic attainment, community participation and personal development.
   

   

In order to complement the formal education system and accommodate the ever-broadening range of the community's learning needs, the Service has developed a Community College System and also a multitude of comprehensive learning pathways with maximum diversity and options operated in formal and non-formal settings.

In August 2001, Caritas Francis Hsu College was formally recommended by the Hong Kong Council of Academic Accreditation (now known as Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic & Vocational Qualifications) to be registered as an approved post-secondary college under the Post-secondary Colleges Ordinance.

The new campus of Caritas Bianchi College of Careers in Tseung Kwan O has officially opened in September 2009.  This new campus marks not only a new page for the development of Caritas’s higher education, but also provides a solid foundation for the establishment of a Catholic university in Hong Kong.

The Service is one of the largest providers of Employees Retraining Programme and Project Yi Jin in Hong Kong.
 
 

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