HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education

In the early 1950s, it became apparent that there was a need for further education opportunities in the colony. The findings of the Keswick Report (1952) and the Jennings-Logan Report (1953) provided recommendations to the colonial government to establish a new department aimed at providing adult-education programmes.[1] On 21 May 1957, HKU established the Department of Extra-Mural Studies with an enrollment of 330 students. Part of the purpose of the Department was to develop and run courses to meet the needs of the growing colony of Hong Kong. These included library studies in response to the opening of the first library in the territory, and housing management to cope with the growing housing crises which plagued the colony in the 1960s.[2]

The Department was renamed the School of Professional and Continuing Education in January 1992. This change elevated its status with relation to its parent organisation, giving it financial autonomy, and allowing it more freedom to make decisions related to the programmes out offered.[2] The school was reformed into a corporate structure in 1999, allowing the University to provide for more flexible and appropriate rules and procedures not open to the University as a publicly funded institution.[2]

HKU SPACE operates out of a number of small locations spread across Hong Kong, currently:[3]

Name	Chinese name	Photo	Address	Student enrollment	Notes
Admiralty Learning Centre	金鐘教學中心		2/F & 3/F, Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Admiralty
CITA Learning Centre	製衣業訓練局教學中心		63 Tai Yip Street, Kowloon Bay
Kowloon West Campus	九龍西分校		5/F & 12/F, NCB Innovation Centre, 888 Lai Chi Kok Road, Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon
Fortress Tower Learning Centre	北角城教學中心		1/F, 4/F, 10/F, 14/F, 16/F, 19/F, 20/F & 22/F, Fortress Tower, 250 King's Road, North Point
Graduate House Learning Centre	研究生堂教學中心		Level P6 (Room P601 & P602), Graduate House, No. 3 University Drive, The University of Hong Kong
HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College (HPSHCC) Campus	港大保良何鴻燊社區書院		66 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay
Island East Campus	港島東分校		494 King's Road, North Point
Kowloon East Campus	九龍東分校		28 Wang Hoi Road, Kowloon Bay
United Learning Centre	統一教學中心		6/F, United Centre, 95 Queensway

HKU SPACE Community College Campus.

HKU SPACE International College Campus.

HKU SPACE also oversees a number of subsidiary educational organisations:[4]

• HKU SPACE Community College (established in 2000)
• HKU SPACE International College (established in 2003)
• HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College (established in 2006)
• College of Business and Finance
• College of Humanities and Law
• College of Life Sciences and Technology
• Centre for Logistics and Transport

HKU SPACE has strategic partnership with universities globally that offer a number of part time and full time courses at HKU SPACE campuses across Hong Kong.[5]

Established in 2004, the HKU SPACE Alumni aims to maintain an active relation between the school and the alumni. The HKU Professional Real Estate Agencies Alumni and Hong Kong Students & Alumni Association of The Tsinghua University School of Law as Limited Companies under the Companies Ordinance. 9 more organisations were established as societies under the societies ordinance:[6]

• HKU SPACE Public Relations and Corporate Communication Alumni Chapter
• HKU SPACE Society of Putonghua Students
• HKU SPACE Mediation Practice Alumni Society
• HKU SPACE Wine Alumni Association
• Gem & Jewellery Alumni Association
• HKU SPACE Art Collecting Alumni Association
• HKU SPACE Fintech Alumni Association
• HKU SPACE Financial Planning Alumni Society
• HKU SPACE Docent Alumni Society

The alumni membership systems also differs from other colleges including the HKU. It consist of the "Lifelong Learner Card" which is automatically obtained by graduating from HKU SPACE and the "Life Membership Card" which can only be obtained after paying the membership fee to be a "Life Member". The only differences between the life membership and ordinary membership is the privileges which provide discounts of companies in different field, which can only be access by the life member. However, most of the privileges were shared between the 2 different types of member.