Veteran educator Acácio de Brito is expected to take up the post of director at the Macau Portuguese School (EPM), TDM reports.
Brito currently works for Portugal’s Ministry of Education as an education and science inspector. Between September 2015 and February 2023, he headed the East Timor Portuguese School in Dili.
Brito is highly-qualified, with an advanced degree in public management, as well as post-graduate qualifications in philosophy, human resources management, and education sciences. His bachelor’s degree was in philosophy, from the Catholic University of Portugal.
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EPM is a private, non-profit international school serving grades one through to 12. It receives funding from the Portuguese government.
The school’s foundation recently announced it had appointed a new president, the lawyer Jorge Neto Valence, to take over from Roberto Carneiro – who has been at the helm since the school first opened its doors in 1998.
About 750 students are currently enrolled in the Macau Portuguese School.
