The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) has opened a development centre for teachers that it says is the first of its kind in Macao.
At the launch on Tuesday, USJ rector, Professor Stephen Morgan, told the Macau Daily Times that the facility would offer professional training for educators and that the SAR’s teaching community had reached a size to make such a centre necessary.
Previously, he said, experts from Hong Kong were brought in to train local teachers.
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The head of the Education and Youth Development Bureau, Kong Chi Meng, attended yesterday’s unveiling, and told Macau Daily Times that the new facility would foster the development of education in both Macao and the Greater Bay Area.
The paper reports that the centre will offer training in special needs education, education management, early literacy development, early childhood education and other topics, alongside the training of new teachers and instructors.
USJ says some 1,200 students have come through its post-graduate diploma in education in the past decade.
