Results of the Education Survey released by the Statistics and Census Service indicated that in the academic year 2005/2006, there were 135 schools or institutions providing regular education in Macao, comprising 12 institutions of higher education and 123 schools that offered pre-primary, primary and secondary (including vocational-technical secondary) education. Among those providing non-tertiary education, 104 were private schools, of which 83 had joined the universal basic education network. The survey also covered 12 schools of special education and 133 establishments of adult education; meanwhile, the survey coverage was extended, for the first time, to include information on 154 private tutorial centres. At the end of the academic year 2005/2006, there were 15,927 students attending higher education, up by 14.0% over the previous academic year, and 73.5% were local students. At the same time, students in non-tertiary education decreased by 3.2% to 91,398, of which the number of students in secondary education (45,995) dropped slightly by 0.2% after rising continuously in the past years, while those in pre-primary (10,216) and primary education (35,187) continued a decreasing tendency to go down by 8.2% and 5.5% respectively. On the other hand, number of teachers engaged in regular education increased by 1.9% to 6,073. The teacher/student ratio for the system of regular education was 1 to 17.7; the ratio for non-tertiary and higher education was 1 to 20.2 and 1 to 10.3 respectively. Compared with the academic year 2004/2005, number of students studying in special education dropped by 7.4% to 514, while students enrolled in adult education totalled 103,553, up by 15.7%. Information provided by 154 private tutorial centres indicated that 5,153 students were receiving auxiliary tutorial services at these centres, with 34.4% attending lower primary and 32.3% attending upper primary education.
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