The director of the Macau Polytechnic Institute’s (IPM) Seniors Academy, Lam Wan Mei, said yesterday that the city’s elderly are passionate about learning so that a branch school of the academy will open at the end of this year or early next year with the aim of offering more places for programmes to meet senior citizens’ needs.
Lam told The Macau Post Daily on the sidelines of the 2018/19 Seniors Academy Teacher & Student Art Exhibition on the IPM campus that when the academy was established in 1999, “it was the first official academic unit in Macau enabling the elderly to study at a higher educational institution”. She also said that the academy aimed to place the idea of continuing education for the elderly into practice, to give them an opportunity to go back to school and to enrich and renew their knowledge as well as to enhance their life expectations.
The number of elderly enrolling in the academy’s three-year or four-year programmes has been increasing every year, according to Lam, adding that the academy received about 700 applications in 2017 and about 800 last year.
The Macau Polytechnic Institute’s (IPM) Seniors Academy Director Lam Wan Mei poses after an interview with The Macau Post Daily on the sidelines of the 2018/19 Seniors Academy Teacher & Student Art Exhibition on the Zape IPM campus yesterday. Photo: Rachel Lei
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