Education | UM visits Angola with designs on PSC collaboration

A delegation led by University of Macau (UM) rector Yonghua Song and vice-rector for research Rui Martins recently visited Angola to strengthen collaboration between the educational institution and Portuguese-speaking universities (PSC).

A statement from UM said the visit intended to support the local government’s desire to develop the city as a service platform between China and Portuguese-speaking countries.

During the visit, the UM representatives met with the Chinese ambassador to Angola, where they shared recent university developments, highlighting UM’s relocation to the current campus and efforts to produce professionals fluent in both Chinese and Portuguese.

According to UM, the Chinese ambassador said that two senior diplomats from the embassy in Angola once studied Portuguese at the university.

They also met with Angola’s Minister of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation. The minister was told by Song that the internationalization of UM was a priority for the university and that the University values its relations with its Portuguese-speaking counterparts.

They also visited Agostinho Neto University, participated in the 28th annual meeting of the Association of Portuguese Speaking Universities (AULP) and signed a collaboration agreement with Mandume Ya Ndemufayo University, whose rector, Professor Orlando da Mata, is the current president of the AULP.