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澳門理工學院及里斯本大學拜訪國家教育部

    為加強學術交流合作，里斯本大學António Nóvoa安東尼奧•諾福亞校長及澳門理工學院李向玉院長一行，於本月十二日拜訪國家教育部，教育部郝平副部長會見代表團。會面中，郝平副部長表示，中葡雙方加強教育與人文領域的交流與合作具有重要意義。他希望，里斯本大學能進一步加強與中方在中葡語言教學、葡語師資培養等方面的合作。郝平副部長對里斯本大學及澳門理工學院在推動搭建世界葡語國家高校同中國高校合作平臺方面所作出的努力和貢獻表示讚賞。里斯本大學安東尼奧•諾福亞校長校長表示，里斯本大學願意加強同中國高校的聯繫，希望今後能與中方高校在葡萄牙語言、文化及其他學術研究領域開展形式多樣的交流與合作。

   澳門理工與葡萄牙里斯本大學是學術合作戰略夥伴，交流頻繁。迄今， 已經展開的項目包括：合辦博士學位課程、師資交流、共同開展科研、教材出版、舉辦學術研討會、進行圖書文獻資料等多元化學術合作。

“從藝（1964-2011）——李振球畫展”揭幕

    理工學院主辦的“從藝（1964-）——李振球畫展”，將於2012年1月19日至1月25日在理工學院展覽聼舉行。鋪展畫家的藝術創作生涯，呈現個人藝術思維和創作風格，表達作者藝術品味和人生態度的百來幅作品，分別為中國畫、年畫、連環畫創作及、寫生等等，堪稱作者一份藝術心情和人生感受的報告。畫展分為“樸實再現”，“結緣民間”，“寄情水墨”三個部份。

The BSc Computing Programme of MPI Accredited by IET

Macao Polytechnic Institute(MPI), to improve the quality of teaching and degree programs, and with the government encouraging higher education institutions to undertake accreditations, after years of preparation, invited the expert review group of the Institute of Engineering and Technology of UK( IET) to Macao to conduct a four-day accreditation for its program in Computing from 6 to 9 December 2011.

The experts of IET conducted a comprehensive review on the teaching documents, student works and papers, teaching facilities, laboratories, research centres, and conducted dialogues with teachers, students, and graduates.  IET’s experts found MPI’s faculty quality, teaching plans, social services, hardware environment, and student’s employment situation and their further education satisfactory, and wrote the accreditation report accordingly. IET’s Academic Accreditation Committee officially accredited MPI’s Bachelor of Science Programme in Computing with the highest ranking on December 19, 2011, a significant achievement of Macao’s higher education, as being fully recognized by the international academic community. 
 
The Institute of Engineering and Technology of UK is one of the world's leading engineering technology professional academic institutes. Currently, the Institute has more than 150,000 members in 127 countries and regions in the world. It is a prestigious international institution of engineers, one of the world's largest certification bodies for qualification of engineers. Authorized by the UK Engineering Council, it can also grant qualified engineers globally recognized qualifications. UK Engineering Council was one of the first organizations signing the " Washington  Accord" , the world’s professional engineering certification system. It has conduced accreditations for nearly 1300 engineering related courses/programmes in the United Kingdom, and for nearly 50 courses/programmes overseas.  The "Washington Accord ", ensuring the quality of engineering for the purpose of assessment purposes, is one of the world's basic academic assessment index systems. The Accord was first signed in 1989, with the United States, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand as the signatory countries.  Later, the "Washington Accord " gradually accepted Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and South Africa as signatory countries/regions.  The quality assurance system based on the "Washington Accord " , after more than a decade of development, has become an academic and teaching evaluation/certification system internationally.

It was the first time that the BSc Computing Programme of MPI participated in  IET’s accreditation. With the highest rank of certification achieved, the Programme ’s teaching quality has reached international standards. It showed that after ten years of efforts, the teaching quality and standard of MPI has been rising, with its many programs getting good reviews from international professional fields of different areas. The successful accreditation is also of great significance to Macao’s higher education in general. 
        

The programme has two specialization areas, Enterprise Information Systems and Gaming Technology.  As the programme has successfully passed the IET’s academic accreditation, students will have the academic qualifications required by IET’s chartered engineers upon successful graduations, enhancing their career prospects in the future.  It will also improve MPI’s international reputation and credibility. The BSc Computing Programme of MPI will continue to strive to further enhance the quality of teaching, to train high- quality professionals for Macao.

President Lei Heong Iok of Macao Polytechnic Institute Selected as an Academician by the Lisbon Academy of Science of Portugal

    President of Macao Polytechnic Institute, Prof. Lei Heong Iok has been selected as one of the foreign corresponding academicians by the Lisbon Academy of Science of Portugal.   

    The ceremony of conferment, presided by Prof. Arantes e Oliveira, the President of the Academy, was held on Nov 15, 2011, at the Academy. Speaking about the conferment, Prof. Oliveira said that it was meant to affirm Prof. Lei’s outstanding achievement in academic and higher education, and his significant contribution in facilitating the cooperation and exchange between higher education institutes in Macao and Portugal. In response, Prof. Lei expressed that it was not only a recognition of himself personally, but also a recognition of Macao Polytechnic Institute as a whole. The Institute would continue to strengthen the teaching and research work in Portuguese language and culture and to cultivate more talents in the area. He then made the presentation of ‘the Development of Portuguese Teaching in China’ to introduce to those present about the current state of Portuguese teaching in China.

    Macao Polytechnic Institute has very close links with higher education institutes in Portugal. The collaborative activities include joint bachelor and master’s programmes, exchanges of teachers and students, joint research projects, joint publication of teaching materials, cooperation in seminars, and sharing in library information. MPI is also a director of the executive committee, Federation of the Management Forum of Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking Countries and Territories (Forum da Gestao do Ensino Superior nos Paises e Regioes de Lingua Portuguesa). Besides, it is an alternate member of the Coordination Committee of the Portugal Polytechnic Institutes as well as a member of the Society of Rectors of Portuguese Speaking Universities.

Macao Polytechnic Institute Participates in the Management Forum of Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking Countries and Territories

  Jointly invited by University of Lisbon and University of Coimbra, a group of representatives of MPI, led by the President, Prof. Lei Heong Iok, participated in the
Management Forum of Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking Countries and Territories (Forum da Gestão do Ensino Superior nos Países e Regiões de Língua Portuguesa) from Nov 14 to 16, 2011.

   The first edition of the Management Forum of Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking Countries and Territories held its opening ceremony at University of Lisbon on Nov 14. The ceremony was officiated by Prof. João Queiró , the State Secretary of Higher Education of Portugal, Prof. Adão do Nascimento ,the State Secretary of Higher Education of Angola, Prof. Arlindo Chulundo, Deputy Prime Minister responsible for education, Mr. Arnaldo Brito, General Director of Higher Education and Innovation Department of the Ministry of Higher Education an Innovation of Cape Verde, Prof. António Sampaio Nóvoa , Chancellor of University of Lisbon and Prof. João Gabriel e Silva, Chancellor of University of Coimbra. President Lei  Delivered a speech entitled ‘ On the Management Experiences of Higher Education’, in which he shared his management experience on the higher education in Macao, in the context of MPI’s development of teaching and research, the current situation, existing problems and future challenges.

   The closing ceremony was held at University of Coimbra on Nov 16 with the academic achievements concluded by the organizing committee and a concluding remark delivered by Prof. João Gabriel e Silva. Concurrently, the founding meeting of the Federation of the Management Forum of Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking Countries and Territories was convened, with all the participants of the Forum invited as its founding members. The meeting passed its charter, designating the Federation as an academic organization with a purpose to propagate the cooperation and exchange between its members in the area of management of higher education. Prof. Lei was nominated as one of the directors of its executive committee.
  
    The Forum had its participants of over three hundreds, rectors of universities or polytechnics, scholars and leaders of student unions, coming from Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Macao, with over one hundred academic papers delivered.