The government-appointed Talents Development Committee (SCDT) said in a statement on Thursday that it expects an oversupply of teaching staff for non-tertiary education schools in the next three years.
The committee also released data from a research project on the topic.
The statement said that the aim of the research was for the general public to understand the demand for teaching staff in Macao and use it as a reference for career planning. The research surveyed all 78 non-tertiary education schools in Macao and gathered information about the demand for teaching staff from 2020 to 2023, according to the statement.
Non-tertiary education comprises primary and secondary schools as well as schools for pupils with special needs and kindergartens.
According to the data, the 78 non-tertiary education schools require 7,411 teaching staff, yet they only need to recruit 235 new teaching staff members, with the data showing that the demand for new teaching members is just 3.2 per cent of the total staff needed. The data also showed that the demand for new teaching staff will decrease over the next few years, predicting that in 2022-2023, only 124 new teachers will be needed.
The statement also predicted that there will be an oversupply of teacher-training graduates in the next few years. Besides primary education institutions, all other institutions will have an excessive supply of teacher-training graduates, according to the research.
(The Macau Post Daily/Macau News)
