Dedicated courses are provided for eligible youth and specific service targets including new arrivals, persons with disabilities and persons recovered from work injuries, ethnic minorities, rehabilitated ex-drug abusers and ex-offenders, to cater for their training and employment needs. These courses cover vocational and professional education and training, generic skills training and career planning.
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The Employees Retraining Board (ERB) is dedicated to assisting eligible employees of Hong Kong of non-Chinese origin, in particular the ethnic minorities, to broaden their opportunities through the provision of suitable training and employment services. These dedicated services assist them to integrate into the society and strive for the well-being of themselves and their families.
ERB also subsidies Training Bodies to develop supplementary training materials and provide learning support services with a view to facilitating the ethnic minorities who can speak and comprehend Cantonese to attend other training courses for the general public.
Leaflet about Training Courses for Ethnic Minorities are available in English and eight other languages:
Placement-tied courses tailored for unemployed Hong Kong Permanent Residents / Hong Kong Residents holding One-way Permits / Hong Kong Residents holding Dependant Visas granted through sponsorship by Hong Kong Permanent Residents are offered free of charge, and retraining allowance is payable to eligible trainees attending placement-tied courses with duration of seven days or more and fulfilling the stipulated disbursement criteria.
Non-placement-tied courses are fee-charging, and upon receipt of enrolment notification, eligible trainees (Hong Kong Permanent Residents / Hong Kong Residents holding One-way Permits / Hong Kong Residents holding Dependant Visas granted through sponsorship by Hong Kong Permanent Residents) may apply for course fee reduction based on their income levels. Trainees with a monthly income exceeding $15,000 and up to $23,500 may apply for course fee reduction and pay the "Subsidised Fee"; and trainees with no income or a monthly income at or below $15,000 may apply for course fee waiver. Other trainees are required to pay the "Course Fee" of individual courses. Course fees payable by trainees are based on the amounts stipulated by ERB at the time of course application.
For enquiries, please contact ERB at (852) 182 182, by fax (852) 2369 8322, or by email erbhk@erb.org.
The existing and planned measures of ERB on the promotion of equality for the ethnic minorities in different languages are listed as below.
Annual statistics of interpretation and translation services arranged in 2025 are listed as below.
