Higher Education: Macau lacks Hong Kong’s academic environment

Graduate education in Macau features a local style and has achieved much in 20 years. However, when it comes to internationalisation and academic ambience it is lagging Hong Kong, according to Yongqian Li, a researcher at the College of Management of Jinan University.
The article titled ‘Exploration of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Graduate Training Mechanism’ published in the Creative Education Journal’s July edtion analyses the different systems of the territories to suggest the application of the different strengths of each system to Mainland education.
“Comparing the graduate education in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, Hong Kong features deeper internationalisation and academic ambience. The training mechanism in Macau and Taiwan features a distinct local style”, the author finds in the conclusions.
The research paper also explains that Macau’s higher education system is much closer to Taiwan than to Hong Kong, which is portrayed as a positive aspect, as according to the author the most important thing is for each system to adapt to its local characteristics.
“The key is to form a training institution meeting local conditions. The degree and graduate education in Hong Kong focuses on academic patterns. Graduate education in Macau and Taiwan closely focuses on social reality. The graduate training mechanism can facilitate innovative talent to show themselves”, he stressed.
Yongqian Li also praises the support of the government of the three regions to students. However, when it comes to the support system of the Macau Government, the author stresses it as “famous”, after explaining it in detail.
“Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan belong to the areas with developed higher education. People’s education level is relatively high. The three areas provide a lot of policy support to the graduate education, and guarantee the healthy development of graduate education”, he said.