Education | New academic year ceremony held at IPM

The opening ceremony of the 2018/2019 academic year of the Macao Polytechnic Institute (IPM) was held in the afternoon of August 29 at the IPM Sports Pavilion, with more than 900 new students joining the Institute.

Two thousand participants including community leaders, representatives of scholarship donors, representatives from overseas universities, IPM teachers and students, alumni, and parents attended in total.

As per the Institute’s tradition, the incoming students swore their oath at the ceremony of “IPM’s heart, our new start”.

Im Sio Kei, the acting president of IPM, presided over the opening ceremony and welcomed new students to the university. According to a statement from the university, Im encouraged the newcomers to carry on IPM’s tradition of academic excellence, broaden their horizon to the world, and be ready for future contributions to regional or national development.

To assist new students in adapting to campus life, IPM started a series of orientation activities after the opening ceremony, including campus orientation, welcome receptions for different majors, library survival skills workshops, a “personality training camp”, and a physical and mental fitness education workshop, as well as other activities organized by the Student Union.

IPM regularly receives the largest number of applications from Macau students. It has successfully passed a rigorous international institutional review, and it is ranked as a “4-star high- standard university” in the greater China region.