Govt urges local academics to return home for sabbaticals

2016-04-06 08:20
BY Davis Ip
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The government-appointed Talents Development Committee plans to launch a pilot scheme by the end of the year to attract local academics who are living abroad to provide short-term services to Macau’s higher education institutions, Sou Chio Fai, secretary-general of the committee, said yesterday.

Sou, who heads the Tertiary Education Service Office (GAES), made the remarks at Government Headquarters on the sidelines of the committee’s first plenary meeting this year. 

Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On and Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng attended the meeting as the committee’s president and vice-president respectively.  

 

Sou Chio Fai, secretary-general of the Talents Development Committee, talks to reporters on the sidelines of yesterday’s committee meeting at Government Headquarters.   Photo: Davis Ip

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