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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》 |
English Programmes
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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.
*See below for details.
(30 lessons × 3 hours each; once per week)
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.
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 | Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm |
Admiralty Learning Centre / United Learning Centre |
| 2455-2019AW | 16 Nov 2026 | Monday, 7:00 - 10:00 pm |
HPSHCC Campus, Causeway Bay |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2450-1666AW | 16 Oct 2026 | Friday, 7:00 - 10:00 pm |
Kowloon East Campus, Kowloon Bay |
This programme aims to provide students with a comprehensive and solid preparation for IELTS (International English Language Testing System), thereby maximising their potential in achieving a higher band score for further studies or career advancement. This programme enables students to enhance their competence in the key language skills (including listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar), develop essential test-taking strategies, undertake intensive practice, accumulate practical test-taking experience, and acquire comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the topics that are commonly assessed in both types of IELTS, namely IELTS Academic and IELTS General Training.
Through systematic and innovative delivery of flexible learning (i.e. real-time online lectures, face-to-face classroom teaching and self-paced asynchronous e-learning) blended with flipped classroom pedagogy (pre-lecture learning), this programme provides students with greater accessibility to English language resources, ample test-based practice and student-centred learning experience.
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
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.
