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Issues such as the high rate of grade retention and the low
completion rate of basic education in Macao have drawn a lot of
public attention. More at issue is the quality of education in
Macao. While blame for academic failure is usually laid on
individual students, in this book Yi-Lee Wong and Chi-Fong Chan
seek to provide a structural explanation by investigating the
operation of the modern education of Macao. Referring extensively
to Macao's colonial past, Wong and Chan highlight how colonialism's
historical legacy shapes the characteristics of the existing
education system in Macao; specifically how it has both generated
and sustained a system whereby privately run schools are publicly
funded. In such a system, private schools can get government
funding without being effectively monitored. Such schools are free
to carry out school-specific policies (including policies of grade
retention and teacher hiring), teach an exclusive school-specific
curriculum, and use unique school-specific standards to assess
students. Despite the 1999 handover of Macao from Portugal to
China, and regardless of the great efforts made to improve
education by Macao's SAR government since then, the situation
remains more or less unchanged. The authors argue that Macao's
colonial history poses huge challenges to educational reform. To
make this case, Wong and Chan analyse thorny issues facing the
Macao SAR government, concentrating on schools, teachers and
students. In their analysis, they draw on a variety of empirical
evidence, such as historical material, secondary documents,
statistics (including results from Programme for International
Student Assessment on OECD countries), and updated empirical
findings from surveys; as well as ethnographic studies on
contemporary Macao. In the concluding chapter, Wong and Chan use
the case of Macao to urge policy makers to rethink the promised
societal benefits of the privatization of education suggested in
the dominant neo-liberal discourse.
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