To further enhance the development of gifted education in Hong Kong, the Education Bureau set up the Gifted Education Fund (hereafter called the Fund) in 2016 and has so far injected $2.2 billion into the Fund for generating investment income to support the service enhancement of the Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education, to implement measures recommended by the Advisory Committee on Gifted Education, and to encourage gifted education providers to provide quality advanced learning programmes for gifted students.
To encourage post-secondary institutions, non-government organisations (NGO), professional bodies and technology enterprises to provide diversified off-school advanced learning programmes, the GE Fund offers funding support for different organisations to provide off-school advanced learning programmes to expose gifted students to high quality and challenging learning experiences in their areas of talent or, where suitable, in a wider range of disciplines or even across disciplines.