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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 Langauge 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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Intensive English Refresher is a 30-hour summer course designed to provide English language practice and enhance students' confidence in using English. Lessons will help students cope with language tasks required of students enrolled in lower-intermediate to intermediate courses in HKU SPACE General English series.
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Start 16 JUL 2025 (WED)
Duration 10 weeks
Fee HK$3,200
This 30-hour course gives learners more opportunities to enhance their speaking and listening skills. The course aims to consolidate learner's knowledge of grammar and vocabulary; widen their understanding of idiomatic and colloquial English; and develop their speaking and listening skills to help them deal with naturally spoken English.
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Start 07 JUL 2025 (MON)
Duration 10 weeks
Fee HK$3,600
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 16 JAN 2026 (FRI)
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.
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 03 JUN 2025 (TUE)
Duration 12 months
Fee HK$9,900 for 2 modules, 45 hours each.
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 JUL 2025 (MON)
Duration 12 months
Fee HK$8,000
Pronunciation and Fluency 1 is part of the Certificate in English Language Skills (Introductory). This very practical course will give you lively realistic discussion and conversation practice.
Pronunciation and Fluency 1 will help you:
- improve your English pronunciation
- become a more fluent and confident speaker of English in different situations
- increase your range of useful English vocabulary
- introduce you to different native speaker accents
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Start 17 NOV 2025 (MON)
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 01 APR 2026 (WED)
Duration 1 year
Pronunciation and Fluency 2 follows on from Pronunciation and Fluency 1, giving students further practice in the skills practised there. It will be suitable for students who have completed Pronunciation and Fluency 1, and also for new students as long as they have a knowledge of the phonemic chart.
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Start To be advised
Duration 15 weeks
Fee HK$3,700
The programme aims to provide the target participants with chances to learn and to practise scenario-based healthcare workplace spoken English.
On completion of the programme, students should be able to:
On completion of the programme, students should be able to:
- read and identify common clinical-related terms in English;
- use appropriate clinical-related terms in English under familiar situations; and
- communicate in simple English with people in healthcare settings.
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Start To be advised
Duration 12 months
Effective Writing Skills 2 develops your language at a higher level than Effective Writing Skills 1, and builds on and enhances the skills learned there. However, as long as you meet the entry requirements, you can gain direct entry into Effective Writing Skills 2 without doing Effective Writing Skills 1.
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Start To be advised
Duration 15 weeks
Fee HK$3,700
Active Grammar 1 is a practical course that recognises the role of grammar in language and communication. It will use real examples of grammar in use in typical, everyday situations, to help you:
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recognise and correct common grammatical errors
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work out and apply grammar rules for yourself
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communicate correctly in both spoken and written English
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use a greater variety of structures with confidence
To benefit from the course, you should be prepared to participate fully in all exercise and activities.
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Start To be advised
Duration 15 weeks
Fee HK$3,700
This programme aims to equip students with the professional communication skills and English proficiency to excel in both general business contexts and specifically in the industry of financial services. It is designed to enhance students’ overall English proficiency through contextualised teaching and scenario-based materials. This programme also lays a solid foundation for graduates to proceed to an advanced diploma in professional communication, business management or similar subjects, thereby providing the means to articulate and achieve higher qualifications at university, and improving graduates’ prospect of career advancement.
Module 1: Business English for Professionals
Module 2: Professional Communication in Business Administration
Module 3: Professional Communication in Financial Services
Module 4: Financial Communication and Relationship Management
Module 1: Business English for Professionals
Module 2: Professional Communication in Business Administration
Module 3: Professional Communication in Financial Services
Module 4: Financial Communication and Relationship Management
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Start To be advised
Duration 12 months
Fee HK$20,300
