Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that in the academic year 2003/2004, there were 143 schools or institutions providing regular education, including 12 institutions of higher education that were recognized by the Government of Macao SAR and 131 schools that offered pre-primary, primary and secondary education (including vocational-technical secondary education). Among those providing pre-primary, primary and secondary education, 111 were private schools and 88 of them have joined the universal basic education network. Besides, there were 15 schools providing special education, with regard to adult education, Education Survey for this academic year has collected information from 129 establishments of adult education. Number of teachers engaged in regular education grew 2.3% over the previous academic year to 5 445. Among them, 4 341 were in pre-primary, primary and secondary education, while 1 104 were in higher education. Number of teachers engaged in special and adult education was 116 and 2 299, which corresponded to an increase of 9.4% and 27.9% respectively compared with the previous academic year. At the end of the academic year 2003/2004, there were 110 494 students attending regular education, up slightly by 0.2% over the previous academic year. Among them, 96 814 were in pre-primary, primary and secondary education and 13 680 in higher education. At the same time, number of students in special education was 568, a decrease of 3.2% over the academic year 2002/2003, while students enrolled in adult education totalled 96 131, up 11.0% over the previous academic year. The teacher / student ratio was 1 to 22.3 in pre-primary, primary and secondary education, 1 to 12.4 in higher education, 1 to 4.9 and 1 to 41.8 in special and adult education respectively. In addition, average class size in pre-primary, primary and secondary education was 39.0 and the class promotion rate was 89.8%.
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