A government drafted-bill proposes that local institutions operating tertiary education programmes which have not been registered with the government and not been published in the Official Gazette (BO) could be fined between 500,000 and 1.5 million patacas, legislator Andrew Chan Chak Mo, who chairs the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) 2nd Standing Committee, said yesterday.
Since the outline of the bill, which aims to regulate the tertiary education sector, was passed by a plenary session of the legislature in February 2015, the committee has only reviewed 15 of the bill’s 60 articles.
The committee met senior officials including Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES) Director Sou Chio Fai, yesterday in a closed-door meeting to discuss the bill, and Chan, a restaurateur by profession, briefed reporters afterwards.
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