Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon, who is also the spokesman for the government’s top advisory Executive Council, has announced that the public Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) will be renamed Macau Polytechnic University (UPM), which will take effect tomorrow.
Addressing a press conference at Government Headquarters on Friday, Cheong said that the government has finished drafting amendments to a current administrative regulation (by-law) on the institute’s organisational structure and operation.
The amendments will take effect on March 1.
Also addressing the press conference, IPM President Im Sio Kei noted that after its constant development since its establishment, the way the institute is currently operating is “no different’ from a university, pointing out that in addition to bachelor’s programmes, the institute has already been running master’s and doctoral programmes.
Im said that renaming the institute was merely to highlight its long-standing operation as a “university in reality”.
Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong Weng Chon (centre), Macau Polytechnic Institute (IPM) President Marcus Im Sio Kei (left) and IPM Secretary-General Irene Lei Vai Fong address Friday’s Executive Council press conference at Government Headquarters. Photo courtesy of TDM
