New | Scholarism duo among students to secure Jupas-funded university places
Almost 64,000 school leavers learned whether they had won subsidised university spots on Friday, with only 30 per cent successful
Prominent student activists Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Agnes Chow Ting both secured places at local universities on Friday, as tens of thousands of secondary school graduates found out if their applications for subsidised university places had been successful.
A total of 27,943 school leavers, including the two core members of student activist group Scholarism, achieved or surpassed the minimum exam scores necessary for university entry this year.
But only about 14,600 – or just over half – obtained a government-subsidised first-year university degree place through the Joint University Programmes Admissions System, or Jupas.
Jupas is the system through which students who have completed the Diploma of Secondary Education exams apply for places at nine member institutions – for degree and sub-degree programmes and for self-financed degree programmes.
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Chow said she received an offer for a place in Baptist University’s bachelor of social science programme, while Wong posted on his Facebook page that he had been admitted by a unnamed university through Jupas.