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At HKU SPACE, we design and offer courses to meet your goals for General English, Business English and English for the Professions. These range from 30 hours to 90 hours and cover a broad spectrum of levels.
Reasons to improve your English at HKU SPACE:
- Polish your interpersonal and career skills
- Learn to communicate ideas more effectively
- Interact confidently with overseas and English speaking people
- Fine-tune your presentations and writing to project better impressions
- Stay up to date by learning about current English use
- Sharpen your competitive edge in today's global workplace
English Language Assessments
LINGUASKILL – the NEW Cambridge English Language Benchmark Test
This is the benchmark test in support of Continuing Education Fund (CEF) reimbursements of English Language course and benchmark test fees. This replaces the former Business Language Testing Service (BULATS) offered by the University of Cambridge.
The Cambridge Assessment English offers organisations a quick and convenient way of checking the English Language proficiency levels of your employees – the Linguaskill Tests.
- Linguaskill General
- Linguaskill Business
- Linguaskill Test & Continuing Education Fund
- For Individual English Language Learners
- For Corporates
- For Immigrants
- For HKDSEE Candidates
- For University Applicants
- Linguaskill Test Report & Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)
- Cambridge Linguaskill Test in Hong Kong
For details, please follow this link: https://hkuspace.hku.hk/collection/linguaskill
Assessment Preparation Courses
- Certificate in IELTS Preparation for Academic and Professional Purposes
- IELTS Preparation for Law Students and Legal Executives
- IELTS Preparation
- Gear Up for IELTS
- Common Recruitment Examination Use of English Paper Preparation
- HKDSE English Speaking Paper Preparation
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English Programmes
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This course will help you if you take a degree course that requires you to produce assignments in English. It will enable you to learn, to write and succeed across college and university curriculums. The course aims to empower you to write clearly, coherently, and concisely and to acquire the academic literacies and discourse conventions applicable to most disciplines in higher education.
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Start To be advised
Duration 45 hours
Fee HK$4,800
90 hours face-to-face lectures and a minimum of 12 hours e-learning activities
(30 lessons × 3 hours each; once per week)
(30 lessons × 3 hours each; once per week)
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Start To be advised
Duration 30 weeks
Fee HK$7,000
If you are responsible for leading learning in your organisation, whether it’s a school, college, higher education institution or as an educator in the public or private sector, this doctoral-level programme is a fantastic opportunity to study education at a deep level and relate this back to your own practice. The EdD helps you expand your knowledge and understanding of how education works and allows you to transform your own practice.
This EdD programme helps you expand your knowledge and understanding of how education works, allows you to transform your own practice, and makes an original contribution to knowledge. This doctoral-level programme is a fantastic opportunity to study education at a deep level and relate this back to your own practice.
This EdD programme helps you expand your knowledge and understanding of how education works, allows you to transform your own practice, and makes an original contribution to knowledge. This doctoral-level programme is a fantastic opportunity to study education at a deep level and relate this back to your own practice.
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Start To be advised
Duration 4 years to 5 years
Fee Estimated total fee for the Spring 2026 cohort: HK$271,980 (based on 4-year of study)
*See below for details.
*See below for details.
90 hours face-to-face lectures and a minimum of 12 hours e-learning activities
(30 lessons x 3 hours each; once per week)
| Application Code |
Commencement |
Day / Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2375-1816AW |
26 Mar 2026 |
Thursday, 7:00 - 10:00 pm |
HPSHCC Campus, Causeway Bay |
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Start 26 MAR 2026 (THU)
Duration 30 weeks
Fee HK$8,200
The programme aims to equip students with the language skills in specific focused areas at a higher level of accuracy and appropriacy.
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Start 11 APR 2026 (SAT)
Duration 30 weeks
Fee HK$3,700
Speaking and Listening 2 is at a higher level than Speaking and Listening 1, and builds on and enhances the skills learned there. However, as long as you meet the entry requirements, there is no need for you to do Speaking and Listening 1 first.
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Start 11 APR 2026 (SAT)
Duration 15 weeks
Fee HK$3,700
The Certificate in Business English Usage programme aims to help students become more accurate and fluent when communicating in English in the modern workplace. Its goal is to equip students with essential business grammar, vocabulary and all-round language skills, so that they become capable of communicating with native and non-native speakers of English in common business settings. By gaining a greater confidence and a better command of business English grammar, vocabulary, receptive and productive skills, students will be prepared to further develop a higher level of business English proficiency upon completion of the programme. This programme targets working professionals who intend to build on an introductory level of English, so as to bolster their work performance in a business environment where English is the predominant medium of communication.
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Start 14 APR 2026 (TUE)
Duration 12 months
Fee HK$8,000
Effective Writing Skills 1 will develop your practical writing skills so that you write more clearly, more accurately and more effectively.
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Start 14 APR 2026 (TUE)
Duration 15 weeks
Fee HK$3,700
This programme aims to enhance participants, who are managers or supervisors in private and public sectors, in their ability to provide effective and constructive feedback on their staff’s English correspondence. The programme will revisit key principles of professional and business English grammar and writing styles, equip participants with the skills to identify and correct writing issues, and enable them to offer effective feedback that improves grammatical accuracy and communication effectiveness in their staff’s written work.
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Start 15 APR 2026 (WED)
Duration 10 weeks
Fee HK$3,800
The Certificate in Advanced Business English programme helps working professionals communicate accurately and effectively in spoken and written English in various business contexts. The programme is designed to enable students to become more fluent and articulate when communicating in English, so as to produce well-written texts that characterise professionalism and effectiveness in modern business communication, and demonstrate competent oral communication skills in various business contexts.
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Start 16 APR 2026 (THU)
Duration 12 months
Fee HK$9,900 for 2 modules, 45 hours each.
Speaking and Listening 1 is part of the Certificate in English Language Skills (Introductory). This course will help you develop effective speaking and listening skills. You will learn techniques that will enhance your fluency in speaking English and help you deal with problems encountered when listening to native speakers.
The course will help you to:
- build up a range of modern idioms and spoken expressions
- develop effective listening strategies using texts and authentic materials
- gain confidence through discussion, role-play and debate
- progress towards naturally spoken English
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Start 17 APR 2026 (FRI)
Duration 15 weeks
Fee HK$3,700
The programme aims to
1. describe the characteristics of different types of library and information centres;
2. develop skills and techniques required by library assistants in identification, acquisition, storage, organization, use and
circulation of information;
3. identify various application of information technologies in library services;
4. evaluate various categories of information resources, print or electronic for the provision of information service;
1. describe the characteristics of different types of library and information centres;
2. develop skills and techniques required by library assistants in identification, acquisition, storage, organization, use and
circulation of information;
3. identify various application of information technologies in library services;
4. evaluate various categories of information resources, print or electronic for the provision of information service;
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Start 29 APR 2026 (WED)
Duration 1 year
