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Ensuring Hong Kong’s position as the world city of Asia and maintaining Hong Kong’s reputation as one of the world’s safest cities in the 21st Century require effective public management and efficient criminal justice system at all levels to keep pace with the modern societal development. The development and differentiation in these areas have offered a wide range of career opportunities in the community not only in the fields of criminal justice and law enforcement, but also in the fields of public management.

The School offers part-time programmes in criminal justice, law enforcement as well as public management for those who are already serving in the related fields, those who are interested in career advancement and those who will further studies in these fields. These programmes all aim with the common objectives of equipping the participants both with the broad professional knowledge and essential competent skills necessary to function effectively as personnel in the fields of public management, criminal justice and law enforcement such as policing, anti-corruption and correctional services etc. In particular, these programmes will also prepare the participants with a broad-based foundation in social sciences and hence giving them the potential to pursue higher-level studies in the related disciplines.

Closing Ceremony of the 10th Postgraduate Certificate in Corruption Studies
18Aug 2016
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Advanced Diploma in Applied Social Sciences / Advanced Certificate Programmes - Information Seminar
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Programme TitleLevelStart DateFull-time / Part-time
This Senior Executive Certificate in Institutional Integrity Management programme aims to equip participants with both professional knowledge and skills for strengthening the institutional integrity profile of their organizations (either public or private) and hence enhance their capabilities to safeguard their organizations against corruption and internal fraud.
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Start 17 APR 2018 (TUE)
Duration 9 days
Fee HK$15,500 0r US$2,005
This programme allows potential leaders an opportunity to seek professional knowledge in the field of public order management, in particular for those whose first degree is not related to their profession. The programme specifically aims at providing both frontline practitioners and junior managers in law enforcement agencies or other service-related personnel working in the field of order maintenance and offender management with professional knowledge and skills in early identification and handling of vulnerable individuals and groups in the community, leadership in crisis management and analysis of current issues in law and order maintenance.
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Start To be advised
Duration 1 year
Fee HK$30,000
This Advanced Diploma in Applied Social Sciences (Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement) is designed to benefit practitioners in the field of criminal justice and law enforcement who are interested in career development and further studies, as well as those seeking a new career in this specific field.
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Start 10 OCT 2017 (TUE)
Duration 2 years to 5 years
Fee HK$50,000
In order to improve the quality of governance in Hong Kong, it is important to first improve the quality of the politicians. This executive programme is a specialized course developed and offered jointly by the Path of Democracy and HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE), which aims to train and develop young political leaders to meet the needs and unique political situation in Hong Kong.
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Start 17 OCT 2017 (TUE)
Duration 8 months
Fee HK$28,000.00
This programme enables participants to study part of the wide range of modules available in Advanced Diploma in Applied Social Sciences programme.
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Start To be advised
Duration 2 years
Middlesex University, UK
These work-based learning, top-up degree programmes recognize individuals’ practical experience and help them to gain internationally recognized academic qualifications from a combination of work experience, research and project work.
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Start 03 JAN 2018 (WED)
Duration 1 year and 4 months to 6 years
Fee To be confirmed
Middlesex University, UK
These work-based learning, top-up degree programmes recognize individuals’ practical experience and help them to gain internationally recognized academic qualifications from a combination of work experience, research and project work.
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Start 03 JAN 2018 (WED)
Duration 1 year and 4 months to 6 years
Fee To be confirmed
The programme aims to equip participants with analytical and technical aspects of criminal justice and law enforcement studies that trained professionals will need in the law enforcement agencies. It is primarily designed for practitioners in law enforcement agencies and those who are interested in the career development and further studies in the field of criminal justice and law enforcement at a higher level.
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Start 10 OCT 2017 (TUE)
Duration 1 year to 3 years
Fee HK$15,000
This challenging international programme is one of the world’s leading training programmes in corruption studies. It is beneficial to all practitioners and professionals in anti-corruption and law enforcement agencies, justice departments, regulatory bodies, accounting and legal professions, the public and private sectors as well as multi-national organisations who require the expertise to combat corruption within an organisation or within a country.
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Start 07 NOV 2017 (TUE)
Duration 3 weeks
Fee HK$23,200 (or US$3,000)