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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
| We Study • We Practise • We Master 《活學英語 創展未來》 |
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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 23 JUL 2026 (THU)
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 27 JUL 2026 (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 2027 (SAT)
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.
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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 26 AUG 2026 (WED)
Duration 10 weeks
Fee HK$3,800
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 16 SEP 2026 (WED)
Duration 12 months
Fee HK$8,000
90 hours lectures and a minimum of 12 hours e-learning activities
(30 meetings × 3 hours each; once per week)
| Application Code |
Commencement Date |
Day / Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2450-1653AW |
15 Oct 2026 |
Thursday, 7:00 - 10:00 pm |
Kowloon West Campus, Lai Chi Kok |
| 2450-1654AW | 17 Oct 2026 (30 Sep 2026) |
Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm |
Admiralty Learning Centre / United Learning Centre |
| 2450-1655AW | 12 Oct 2026 (30 Sep 2026) |
Monday, 7:00 - 10:00 pm |
HPSHCC Campus, Causeway Bay |
The programme aims to equip students with lower advanced level English linguistic knowledge and skills through extensive language practice and student-centred learning activities such as small group discussion, speaking, writing, reading and listening to a wide variety of semi-authentic English texts. Upon successful completion of the programme, students are expected to speak and write at a lower advanced level and be fluent and confident when communicating in English.
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Start 12 OCT 2026 (MON)
Duration 30 weeks
Fee HK$7,300
90 hours (30 meetings × 3 hours each; once per week)
PT
Start 12 OCT 2026 (MON)
Duration 30 weeks
Fee HK$6,500
90 hours (30 meetings × 3 hours each; once per week)
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Start 12 OCT 2026 (MON)
Duration 30 weeks
Fee HK$6,800
90 hours (30 meetings × 3 hours each; once per week)
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Start 12 OCT 2026 (MON)
Duration 30 weeks
Fee HK$6,700
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)
PT
Start 12 OCT 2026 (MON)
Duration 30 weeks
Fee HK$7,000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2450-1665AW |
14 Oct 2026 |
Wednesday, 7:00 - 10:00 pm |
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| 2450-1666AW | 16 Oct 2026 (30 Sep 2026) |
Friday, 7:00 - 10:00 pm |
Kowloon East Campus, Kowloon Bay |
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Start 14 OCT 2026 (WED)
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.
PT
Start 10 NOV 2026 (TUE)
Duration 30 weeks
Fee HK$3,700
