Liceu de Macau () was a Portuguese-curriculum public secondary school in Sé,
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...
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Its students included local Han Chinese and Macanese as well as children of Portuguese government officials. Students who chose this school would have been prepared for education in universities in Portugal.
History
Circa 1998 the school occupied a campus in central Macau that had been designed by a well-known Portuguese architect. Cathryn H. Clayton, the author of '' Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness'', wrote that compared to most schools in Macau, the Liceu's class sizes were small. She added that the faculty received good salaries and benefits and that the campus was among the most lavish and expensive to maintain. A large percentage of the students matriculated to universities with the majority moving on to European institutions, including those in Portugal itself. Clayton concluded that the school "reflected the conditions of advantage enjoyed by the Portuguese in Macau".
The school's administration chose not to directly teach the history of Macau, although some teachers chose to incorporate that history within their history lessons.Clayton, Cathryn H. '' Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness'' (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483).
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, 2009. p 169 , 9780674035454. Clayton stated that, of all of the school's in Macau, Liceu de Macau was the only one she was aware of which had its own swimming pool.
In 1998 students were transferred to the
Macau Portuguese School
The Macau Portuguese School ( pt, Escola Portuguesa de Macau, EPM, ) is a private, non-profit Portuguese international school located in Macau, China. It serves grades 1–12,brochura_epm_EN.pdf (). Portuguese School of Macau. Retrieved on October 10, 2015. Portuguese PDF Archive
Traditional Chinese PDF Archive a private school which receives funding from the Portuguese government. The former Liceu de Macau campus became the
Macao Polytechnic University
Macao Polytechnic University (MPU; ; pt, Universidade Politécnica de Macau) was established in 1981. It is located in the Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) of the People's Republic of China. MPU is a public Higher education institutio ...
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