BRIEFS | Locally shot movie nominated for Portuguese film awards

The film “The Last Time I Saw Macau,” directed by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, has been nominated for a prize at the Sophia Awards in Portugal. The awards, presented by the Portuguese Cinema Academy, will be presented on October 8.  “The Last Time I Saw Macau” follows the adventures of two filmmakers who leave Portugal in search of a world of discovery, multiculturalism and mystery. The film is based on a fictional framework as a man searches for his troubled friend in Macau. At the same time, the movie is also considered an honest documentary, accurately portraying the city.
The Sophia Awards were established in 2012 to help promote films that were not blockbusters, but which still deserve people’s attention.

DSEJ receives no appeal against in-school evaluation result

The Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) director, Leong Lai, has said that the first in-school evaluation of private school teachers in Macau is going smoothly.  This is the first time that local private school teachers have had to receive an annual assessment of their work, a process that is now required by the System Framework for Private School Teaching Staff of Non-tertiary Education.  Leong Lai said that the Bureau is currently organizing the results submitted by schools.  DSEJ has yet to receive any applications from teachers hoping to appeal against their evaluation result. The director also stressed that the spirit of the assessment is to provide support to teachers in order to improve the teaching quality, not to reprimand them. A teacher told TDM that they must prepare for documents that will evaluate their work through the whole school year. He argues that this has added to teachers’ workloads and hopes that schools can allow teaching staff members to participate in the drafting of in-school evaluation regulations.