The Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) said in a statement yesterday that around 79,000 non-tertiary education students will be covered by the government’s free education system in the new academic year which begins today.
The statement said that 75 non-tertiary education institutions (formal and recurrent education), which comprise a total of 115 schools and their respective branches, will run in the new 2022/23 academic year.
Macau’s non-tertiary education comprises formal education and recurrent education. The 15-year formal education comprises kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, including students with special needs. In addition, a number of schools in Macau provide recurrent education in the primary and secondary education levels.
According to yesterday’s statement, 108 out of the 115 institutions that will operate in the new academic year run formal education curricula, while the remainder run recurrent education curricula.
Yesterday’s statement said that 103 out of the 108 institutions that run formal education curricula will be covered by the government’s free education system in the new 2022/23 academic year. As a result, the statement said, 95.4 percent of the institutions running formal education curricula will be covered by free education, benefiting around 79,000 students.
Yesterday’s statement did not mention the total number of non-tertiary education students enrolled in the new 2022/23 academic year.
Most of Macau’s non-tertiary education institutions are privately run.
Yesterday’s statement also said that the new 2022/23 academic year will have 10 higher education institutions, unchanged from the 2021/22 academic year.
