Briefs | Escola Oficial Zheng Guan Ying opens new campus 

The Escola Oficial Zheng Guan Ying opened its new campus this month at the Rua Marginal Do Canal Das Hortas/ Terminal. The expanded campus now occupies an area of 2,417 square meters. School director Wu Kit said the new campus will conduct classes in Portuguese and Chinese, with 30 students selected for enrolment to date. The director described the outcome of the opening as “satisfactory.” Established in July 2011, the Zheng Guan Ying school currently has 12 grades and 19 classes, with a total of approximately 360 students.

UM proposes medical research, teaching cooperation

The University of Macau (UM), the University of Oxford’s Saint Anne’s College and Center for Personalised Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Dr Stanley Ho Medical Development Foundation recently held a seminar where representatives of the organizations discussed opportunities for collaboration in teaching, research and the training of professionals. According to a statement from the UM, the university’s council chair, Lam Kam Seng, shared the institution’s educational philosophy with the participants. He said that information technology and medical research were advancing rapidly and so it was important to push Macau towards international standards in this area, as well as promote collaboration between different education institutions.