• In the area of learning experience, among all teaching elements, the School performed above the global benchmarks in six of these elements, namely “teachers’ English”, “the quality of lectures”, “learning support”, “programme organisation”, “marking criteria” and “performance feedback”;

• Of the 19 studies and facilities elements in questions asking about other learning experience, the School performed better in 9 of them, when compared to the survey in 2019.

Professor William K.M. Lee, the Director of HKU SPACE, said, “We are excited to know  our good performance in different aspects of the survey, especially the online learning experience. To cope with the outbreak of Covid-19, and as part of the School’s long-term strategy to develop online learning, we moved rapidly to provide online learning for our students. We have invested significantly in equipping classrooms for virtual learning and training both full-time and part-time teachers in the effective use of the new technologies. We have striven to ensure that the quality of our online provision is of the high standards we expect in HKU SPACE. The result reflected that our students are satisfied with our quality of teaching and learning with new online learning pedagogies.”

The Student Barometer survey, the largest annual satisfaction survey of students globally, was conducted by the independent research agency “i-graduate” to collect feedback on student experiences in teaching, learning, programme content, assessment of graduate outcomes, and student support. In the 2021 round, the survey received input from around 168,000 students from 107 institutions in 15 countries.