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Local full-time UGC-funded students with financial needs can apply for grant and loan from the Government Tertiary Student Finance Scheme – Publicly-funded Programmes (TSFS). Applications are means-tested and different amounts are awarded according to applicants’ family size, income and assets level. Applicants receiving a Disability Allowance from the Social Welfare Department may be granted a special loan equivalent to 50% of the maximum loan on top of the original entitlements. |
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All local students with financial needs can apply for a loan from the Government Non-means-tested Loan Scheme. Applications are non-means-tested. Except for the eligible students under the Non-means-tested Loan Scheme for Post-secondary Students, the loan offer is capped at the tuition fee level. |
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Local full-time UGC-funded students with financial needs can also apply for assistance from the PolyU Financial Assistance Scheme. Special consideration may be given to expenses incurred from the disability. |
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Students are welcome to visit details of financial assistance at Http://www.polyu.edu.hk/sao/fa |
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In addition to scholarships available to full-time students, full-time students with disability meeting the requirements and criteria would be nominated by Heads of Departments to compete for the following scholarships/awards:
o Sir Edward Youde Memorial Awards for Disabled Students
o Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship(s) / Scholarship(s) for Disabled Students
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Other scholarships are also available from the community, such as Li Kwan Hung Education Fund administered by the Hong Kong PHAB Association and S.K.Y. Lee and Lee Chi Hung Scholarship Fund for Hearing Impaired Students administered by the Hong Kong Society for the Deaf. Invitation for application will normally be announced in August each year. Please watch out for notice. |
