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hku space 香港大學專業進修學院

HKU SPACE is committed to providing high quality continuing education programmes and lifelong learning opportunities to the community. The following introduction provides background information on the School and highlights some of its major achievements in terms of historical development, current organisational structure, learning support, partnerships and new developments.

The Extension Arm of The University of Hong Kong
Quality Support for Learners
Organisation of the School
Global Perspective
New Horizons in Continuing Education


The Extension Arm of The University of Hong Kong

1956 was a milestone year in the history of continuing education. It was the year the University of Hong Kong's Department of Extra Mural Studies (DEMS) was established, the first continuing education unit in a university in the region. DEMS played a significant role in the provision of lifelong learning opportunities for the wider community and in 1992, it was renamed as the School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE). As the extension arm of the University, HKU SPACE now fulfils its mission through providing learning opportunities for personal, professional and career advancement to people from all walks of life.

With some 900 full time staff and over 2,000 part time teachers, HKU SPACE is the leading local provider in continuing education. Enrolments since 1956 have exceeded one and a half million and annual enrolment now exceeds 100,000 each year. In 2005/2006 this was equivalent to about 19,000 full time students. The School collaborates closely with the other faculties and departments of the University to offer timely and relevant courses that meet society's needs to update education and skills for the knowledge economy.


Quality Support for Learners

A hallmark of the HKU SPACE programmes is that they are designed and managed by the full time academic staff of the School and supported by the excellent corps of part time teachers. The School's Quality Assurance mechanisms were reviewed by the University Grants Committee in 2002/2003 and were described as "exemplary". The School, in its Strategic Plan, has committed itself to being a quality provider in terms of its academic programmes as well as support to students through good teaching and well designed learning centre facilities. The information age has brought exciting new learning possibilites. The School has developed a web-based, on-line learning platform - HKU SPACE Total e-Learning Solution (SOUL). This provides students and teachers with an alternative means of communicating with each other for teaching and learning purposes. SOUL is also a portal for access to the excellent on-line resources of the University Library.


Organisation of the School

The University manages the affairs of the School through a non-profit making company which has a Board of Directors that draws its members from the University itself and from the wider community. The School's academic programmes are monitored by the University Senate through the Board for Continuing and Professional Education and Lifelong Learning. There is also an Advisory Board to the Board of Directors that includes many distinguished community leaders.

Internally, the School organises its wide range of courses into some 40 Subject Groups that are themselves allocated in 10 Divisions that report to the Directorate. There are also the Community College, the Cyberport Institute of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong (that the School manages on the University's behalf), the Centre for International Degree Programmes and a number of other Centres.

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HKU Space is a short form of Hong Kong Univerity School of Professional and continuing education, chinese is香 港 大 學 專 業 進 修 學 院. There are many 課 程 for different 程 度:博 士 學 位,碩 士 、 深 造 文 憑 / 證 書學 士 學 位 、 高 級 專 業 文 憑 、 深 造 文 憑/證 書,副 學 士 、 高 級 文 憑 、 專 業 文 憑, short summer courses , etc. There are many many subjects: music, accounting, chinese and english, commerce, psychology, mathematics, science, 健體與運動, arts, drawings.It is a school that is open to many different kinds of students: from teenagers to old people for Examinatin preparation courses (TOFLE, english writing) or job interview, interests. They are have seminars and discussions open to the public. You know, the course in HKU itself is just for the students to study. But in space, every one can take some course, such as writing and music. These are shorter courses. The difference between HKU Space and HKU is that (1) HKU Space is part of HKU. But the courses offered by HKU space is mostly in the evening. Many are not degree courses. They are just some interesting courses for people to join.(2) HKU space is more open to the public-many people can take a courseif they pay. But In HKU day time program, the courses are only for the students of HKU only. JUst think about your school you are attending now is opening a short summer courses that are joined by other school's student too. (3) Half of the courses at Space are students (adults) who have to work and earn a living during day-time.(4) Many of the teachers of the courses are not full-time staff of HKU itself. It's just part-time workers .
HKU space is a special learning centre made by HKU to make more $. It is like 社 區 中心興趣班:但好貴!!!

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