The Macau Portuguese School ( pt, Escola Portuguesa de Macau, EPM, ) is a private, non-profit Portuguese international school located in
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 ...
,
China
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. It serves grades 1–12,
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. Portuguese School of Macau. Retrieved on October 10, 2015.
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and is located in
Sé (Cathedral Parish). The school received funding from the Portuguese government.
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History
The school opened on August 21, 1998, taking students from Escola Primária Oficial, Escola Comercial Pedro Nolasco, and
Liceu de Macau
Liceu de Macau () was a Portuguese-curriculum public secondary school in Sé, Macau, Sé, Macau. It was the territory's only public Lusophone secondary school.Clayton, Cathryn H. ''Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness'' (Vo ...
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[ The former Liceu was a public institution, and the new EPM, a private school,][Clayton, Cathryn H. '' Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness'' (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). ]Harvard University Press
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, 2009. p
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, 9780674035454. was its continuation. It occupies the former Escola Comercial;[Clayton, Cathryn H. '' Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness'' (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). ]Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retirem ...
, 2009. p
171
, 9780674035454. circa 1998 this campus, smaller and less expensive to maintain than the former Liceu de Macau,[Clayton, Cathryn H. '' Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau & the Question of Chineseness'' (Volume 324 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). ]Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retirem ...
, 2009. p
168
, 9780674035454. only had enough space to house fewer than half of the students who wished to attend.[ Initially the school had over 1,100 students.][ replacing the previous Portuguese leadership at the former Liceu.][
Since its establishment the number of students had declined. Around 2012 this reversed and the student body count began to increase. the school has 577 students from 24 countries; around that period the number of students without a Portuguese background had increased.][
]
Curriculum
The medium of instruction of most classes is Portuguese.[
In 2018 Valeria Koob, the president of the school's parent association, advocated for having outside-of-class expeditions for ]Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language of ...
classes.
See also
* Education in Macau
Most of the schools in Macau are private or subsidized schools. As of the 2015-2016 school year, there were 74 primary and secondary schools that provided formal education, including ten public schools and 64 private schools. Of the schools all bu ...
References
External links
Official web site
{{Macau topics
Educational institutions established in 1998
International schools in Macau
1998 establishments in Macau
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 ...