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Dear Hayley,

Code on Access to Information

Application No. 59/2023

I refer to your application under the Code on Access to Information
received by the Education Bureau on 13 September 2023.

Your request is now under processing. According to paragraph 1.16 of the
Code, we will inform you of the latest progress of the case separately on
or before 3 October 2023. In the meantime, please contact the undersigned
at 2892 6121 if you have any enquiries relating to the Code.

Yours sincerely,

(Miss Katie CHENG)

for Secretary for Education

From: Hayley Cheung <[1][FOI #1417 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 10:05 PM
To: EDBInfo/EDB <[2][Education Bureau request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - HKSES application and awardee
statistics

Dear Education Bureau,

I would like to make a request for the following statistics on candidates
applying/previously applied to the HKSES program.

1) The number of applicants that have applied for the 2023/2024 HKSES
scholarship with A LEVEL results and the number of these applicants that
have been granted an interview.

2) The number of successful awardees each year in the past 5 cohorts that
applied using A LEVEL results.

Please provide this in a spreadsheet.

Yours faithfully,
Hayley Cheung

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Dear Hayley,

Code on Access to Information

Application No. 59/2023

I refer to your applications under the Code on Access to Information
received by the Education Bureau on 13 September 2023 and provide the
available information as follows.

      The total number of applicants of the 2023/24 cohort of the Hong
Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme (HKSES) who submitted their
examination results of the International Advanced Level (IAL) / General
Certificate of Education Advanced Level (GCE A-level) along with their
applications, as well as the total number of the concerned applicants who
were shortlisted for interviews, are provided at Annex I.

      [See attachment "Annex I.pdf"]

      The total number of awardees of the past five cohorts (i.e. the
2018/19 to 2022/23 cohorts) of the HKSES, who submitted their examination
results of the IAL / GCE A-level along with their applications, are
provided at Annex II.

      [See attachment "Annex II.pdf"]

Yours sincerely,

(Miss Katie CHENG)

for Secretary for Education

From: Katie HK CHENG/EDB
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2023 4:22 PM
To: '[FOI #1417 email]'
<[FOI #1417 email]>
Subject: Code on Access to Information (Application No. 59/2023)

Dear Hayley,

Code on Access to Information

Application No. 59/2023

I refer to your application under the Code on Access to Information
received by the Education Bureau on 13 September 2023.

Your request is now under processing. According to paragraph 1.16 of the
Code, we will inform you of the latest progress of the case separately on
or before 3 October 2023. In the meantime, please contact the undersigned
at 2892 6121 if you have any enquiries relating to the Code.

Yours sincerely,

(Miss Katie CHENG)

for Secretary for Education

From: Hayley Cheung <[1][FOI #1417 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 10:05 PM
To: EDBInfo/EDB <[2][Education Bureau request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - HKSES application and awardee
statistics

Dear Education Bureau,

I would like to make a request for the following statistics on candidates
applying/previously applied to the HKSES program.

1) The number of applicants that have applied for the 2023/2024 HKSES
scholarship with A LEVEL results and the number of these applicants that
have been granted an interview.

2) The number of successful awardees each year in the past 5 cohorts that
applied using A LEVEL results.

Please provide this in a spreadsheet.

Yours faithfully,
Hayley Cheung

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the accessinfo.hk website.

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[3][FOI #1417 email]

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requests to Education Bureau? If so, please contact us using this form:
[5]https://accessinfo.hk/en/change_request/...

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