UM, DSEDJ co-organise symposium on curriculum and teaching

The Faculty of Education (FED) of the University of Macau (UM) and the Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) of the Macao SAR government co-organised the Curriculum and Teaching in a Global Perspective—Reforms, Opportunities and Challenges Symposium 2023. The symposium explored issues related to curriculum reform, implementation, and assessment in the context of globalisation from the perspectives of teachers, school leaders and government policies, providing a platform for academic exchange among educators from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Kong Chi Meng, director of the DSEDJ, said in his opening remarks that a quality curriculum is the key to talent development and the SAR government attaches great importance to the development of the entire curriculum system in Macao. Wang Chuang, dean of the FED, pointed out that education needs to adapt to the changes of the times as technology has been gradually integrated into education, adding that education in the future will focus on the integration of academic disciplines. The symposium included two keynote speeches and four roundtable discussions, with a total of 14 speakers from universities, K-12 schools, and government departments of education in the Greater Bay Area.