Student Subsidies | GE Courses | GE Programme & Courses | General Education Office, Hong Kong Baptist University.

A. For All GE Courses with Virtual/Digital Teaching and Learning (VTL/DTL) elements

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Details and Funding Amount

To encourage more extensive use of Virtual/Digital Teaching and Learning (VTL/DTL) in General Education programme, subsidies will be provided to students who enrol in the funded GE courses which have the VTL/DTL initiatives. Financial support will not be provided to self-funded undergraduate programmes.

Item		Amount
Student subsidies*		Up to $300 per student

*Direct subsidies with no receipt required

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Instructions and Form

Students should complete the application form and submit it to the course offering department for approval and reimbursement after project completion. The subsidies will be given to the eligible students via bank transfer by the Finance Office.

B. For Level 3 GE Capstone

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Details and Funding Amount

The Level 3 General Education (GE) Capstone is the pinnacle of the GE Programme. It allows students to consolidate intellectual connections they have been acquiring across different disciplines and apply interdisciplinary knowledge to real-world issues. The GE Capstone is the crucial step of the GE Programme to guide our students become responsible and responsive citizens who are capable of fully participating in this fast-changing, interconnected global world.

The GE Capstone emphasizes active learning in which interdisciplinary experiential learning, service-learning and service leadership learning are some of the core teaching and learning activities.

The student subsidies will be provided to students who have completed the eligible projects listed below to support them to conduct their service-learning and service leadership projects. Financial support will not be provided to self-funded undergraduate programmes.

Interdisciplinary GE Capstone Courses

Interdisciplinary Independent Study

Service-Learning (SL)

Service Leadership Education (SLE)

Group Project
Individual Project

Student subsidies:

Up to $300 per student for local projects**
Case-by-case consideration for projects outside Hong Kong

Student subsidies** for SL or SLE projects (up to $300 per student)

** Direct subsidies with no receipts required.

Acknowledgement

GE Capstone service-learning courses are sponsored by the Tin Ka Ping Innovative Service-Learning Project (田家炳學生創新服務計劃).

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Instructions and Form

Students should complete the application form and submit it to the course offering department for approval and reimbursement after project completion. The subsidies will be given to the eligible students via bank transfer by the Finance Office.

C. For Courses under Character and Ethics Development Scheme

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Details and Funding Amount

Character and Ethics Development Scheme aims at promoting students’ cultural understanding and personal identities through meaningful exposure to, and personal immersion in, the selected parts of the Greater Bay Area (GBA) and the “Cross-Strait Four Regions” of China.

The student subsidies will be provided to students who enrol in the funded courses. Financial support will not be provided to self-funded undergraduate programmes.

Local Projects		Projects outside Hong Kong
Up to $300 per student*		Up to $500 per student*

*Direct subsidies with no receipt required.

Acknowledgement

The Character and Ethics Development Scheme is supported by the Tin Ka Ping Foundation (田家炳基金會).

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Instructions and Form

Students should complete the application form and submit it to the course offering department for approval and reimbursement after project completion. The subsidies will be given to the eligible students via bank transfer by the Finance Office.