There were 18,743 students attending higher education in Macao at the end of the 2007/2008 academic year, an increase of 7.3 percent over the previous academic year, according to the figures released on Friday by the city's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
The figures showed that local students accounted for 68.5 percent of the total who were enrolled in 12 local institutions providing higher education in the 2007/2008 academic year.
Meanwhile, the number of students in Macao's non-tertiary education decreased by 4.9 percent period-to-period to 82,400, with primary students (30,033) registered a notable decrease of 7.4 percent in the 2007/2008 academic year, and those in secondary (43,218) and pre-primary education (9,149) also went down by 3.4 percent and 3.2 percent respectively, according to the DSEC.
There were 130 schools and institutions providing regular education in the 2007/2008 academic year, comprising 12 institutions of higher education and 118 schools engaging in non-tertiary education, which consists of pre-primary, primary and/or secondary (including vocational-technical secondary) education.
Total number of teachers engaging in Macao's regular education was 6,539, with the teacher/student ratio for regular education was 1 to 15.5, while the ratio for non-tertiary and higher education was 1 to 17.2 and 1 to 10.7 respectively, according to the DSEC.
The DSEC's education survey also covered 10 schools providing special education, four schools providing recurrent education, 132 establishments providing adult education, as well as 144 private tutorial centers.
Compared with the previous academic year, number of students attending special education dropped by 2.4 percent to 480, those of recurrent education going up by 14.2 percent to 578, course enrollment in adult education rising by 9.3 percent to 130,410, and 4,784 students were receiving auxiliary tutorial services at private tutorial centers, according to the DSEC.
Source: Xinhua
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