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Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau announces that the issue date of the stamp issue “65^th Macao Grand Prix” will be changed from 16^th November to 15^th November.
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The English Debating Team of the University of Macau (UM) recently defeated more than 100 teams and won the third prize at the 21st ‘FLTRP CUP’ National English Debating Competition held in Beijing. UM debaters Cheong Hoi Lam and Fong Cheok Wang were ranked No 5 among 224 debaters. This year’s event attracted students from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Fudan University, and the China Foreign Affairs University.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that both the general unemployment rate (1.9%) and the unemployment rate of local residents (2.6%) for February-April 2018 held stable as in the previous period (January-March 2018). The underemployment rate was 0.5%, down by 0.1 percentage point.
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The University of Macau today (26 May) held the Congregation 2018. Chui Sai On, chief executive of the Macao SAR and chancellor of UM, said at the ceremony that tertiary education is key to producing talented individuals, and an ‘intellectual’ bank is important for Macao. He pledged continued support to the university in its pursuit of curriculum reform, development of the residential college system, and whole-person education.

Chui officiated at the ceremony in the company of UM University Council Chair Lam Kam Seng, UM Rector Yonghua Song, and Vice Rectors Lionel Ni, Rui Martins, and Kou Mei. Nearly 4,000 people attended the ceremony, including members of the University Assembly, University Council, and Senate; government officials; prominent community members; parents of the graduates; and UM faculty and staff.

In his speech, Chui said: ‘The SAR government makes education an important policy. A community hinges on education, just as education on innovativeness. We will perfect education, inculcate creativity, as well as institute a long-term education system. Also, we will take education forward by means of policy, resources and education reform, as well as promote life-long education to the community.’

He added, ‘A rising University of Macau best showcases the success of higher education which is made possible by cleaving to the “One Country” while leveraging the advantages of the “Two Systems”. Now, the university is continuing to perfect its education, operate a well-developed residential college system, and pursue a whole-person education. At the same time, it is drawing in talented individuals for various fields and strengthening academic discipline building with the sight set on those programmes of great potential and prospect. For all these manoeuvres, they will have full support from the SAR government as always.’

In his speech, Rector Song said that in the course of its 37 years, the university has explored and forged a whole-person education model which focuses on discipline-specific education, general education, research and internship education, and community and peer education, and is running an integrated education regime in which faculties and colleges work together to achieve a synergetic effect. He added that the residential college system is the jewel in the crown of UM’s undergraduate education. It is a realisation of what the American educationalist John Dewey advocates: education is life and life is education. He said to the students, ‘Your four-year residential college life will not fade away. It simply deposits itself in you waiting to be a game changer in your future life. That’s the very reason why we have the residential college system.’ Rector Song also encouraged the students to take the university motto with them, dream big and aim high, and venture and be receptive to new ideas, for Macao, China, and beyond.

Lei Ka Tong, the representative of this year’s graduates, recalled her four years of life at UM. She said, ‘The Syrian war is now in its eighth year; many people in the world have lost their homes for different reasons; children spend their childhood with fears and hunger instead of books and toys; the global temperature keeps rising; animals are suffering, and there are myriad societal concerns. When we are frustrated with this unidealistic world that surrounds us, just remember that we can make a difference. Empowered by knowledge, passion and unswerving integrity, we should be the ones who can make Macao better and the world better.’

This year, UM graduated more than 1,400 students from its bachelor’s degree programmes. They are from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Business Administration, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Science and Technology, and Faculty of Social Sciences. 42 of the graduates have also completed programmes offered by the Honours College. At the ceremony, UM also awarded academic prizes and scholarships to 63 outstanding graduating students.
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The University of Macau (UM) today (26 May) awarded academic prizes to 63 outstanding graduates at the Congregation 2018. In this academic year, the university gave out a total of MOP 4 million in over 60 kinds of academic prizes and scholarships to more than 380 students.
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The University of Macau (UM) today (26 May) presented the Teaching Excellence Award at the Congregation 2018 to recognise outstanding performance in teaching. The recipient was Faculty of Law Associate Professor Shui Bing.
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Organised by the Macao Museum of Art (MAM) of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), in co-operation with the Architects Association of Macau (AAM), the exhibition “Unintended Architecture – Exhibits from Macao, China” was inaugurated at the 16^th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, at 6pm (local time) on 25 May. This is the third time Macao architects have presented their works in this major international architecture event. The exhibition team, comprising curator Manuel Lam Lap Yan and local architects Eddie Ieong Chong Tat, Vong Ka Ian and Benny Chu Hou San, introduced Macao’s characteristic “Freespace” through abstract means to audiences from around the world.
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The University of Macau (UM) today (26 May) held its first flag-raising ceremony to celebrate the congregation day, becoming the first public university in Macao to have held a flag-raising ceremony on campus. Officials from the central government and Macao SAR government, prominent members of the community, as well as more than 800 faculty members and students attended the ceremony. Some students say that the ceremony increased their sense of belonging to China.
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