A government-drafted bill proposes that Macau’s tertiary education institutions be given the right to offer taught degree programmes at master’s and doctoral levels, legislator Andrew Chan Chak Mo, who chairs the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) 2nd Standing Committee, said yesterday.
The lawmaker-cum-restaurateur spoke to the media after a closed-door committee meeting with senior officials including Tertiary Education Services Office (GAES) Director Sou Chio Fai.
According to Chan, it will not be a graduation requirement for students of such programmes to submit a thesis, and it will not be compulsory to conduct research. Chan quoted officials who attended the meeting as saying that taught degree programmes “are becoming popular overseas”.
Lawmaker-cum-restaurateur Andrew Chan Chak Mo (right), who chairs the Legislative Assembly’s (AL) 2nd Standing Committee, speaks to reporters after a closed-door meeting with government officials in the legislature yesterday while lawmaker-cum-businessman Sio Chi Wai, the secretary of the committee, looks on. Photo: Davis Ip
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