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For the home stretch
this is "unforgivable''. intervention in schools, but, she
Gomes can't help thinking says there should be some form of
there has been bad management accountability mechanism, since
Suggestions for
of the sector – whether or not this these institutions receive public
was intentional. "Public money has money.
Edmund Ho’s
been given away to private health Vong has "a feeling" that the
institutions,'' he argues. government is moving toward a
last year in office:
If this had been done under welfare state with regard to educa-
some kind of protocol, with proper tion. But, although subsidies can
Make gaming concessionaries
auditing, it wouldn't be a problem, help institutions and students, the
he says, however, he points: "The academic underlines that it can also
reinvest a fixed percentage private service is not any better become a significant burden for the
of their revenues in Macau
than the public one and the prices administration and therefore needs
are as high as those in Hong Kong. to be carefully analysed.
Plus, almost 80 percent of the pop- In tertiary education, the
Improve the draft of the Article 23
ulation cannot afford to go private, head of the Educational Research
national security law
so they have to turn to the public Centre still doesn't know what
sector.'' the new general law on the higher
Regulate Basic Law Article 27
Gomes argues that the public education will say because no
health sector is being strangled blueprint has been publically pre-
to allow trade unions and strikes because so many people are us- sented yet.
ing it and hard-pressed medical However, she is convinced
Training sessions to explain
staff cannot cope. The Gomes pre- there is a need "to do something
and motivate people for eventual
scription? A new public hospital in to open up the market". Tertiary
Taipaw— hich he believes should education in Macau, she says, has
direct elections already be being builta— nd a re - changed dramatically in the last
view of the medical career regime few years, but in two or three years
Recruit magistrates from Portugal
The lack of magistrates is one of the big
Equal benefits for civil servants doing
challenges. But the solution, so far,
the same job, regardless of their contract
has not been unveiled by the government
Creation of a compulsory
in a bid to motivate health work- from now there will be a decrease
social security scheme
ers. Also, he says recruitment from in the number of local students.
outside Macau is needed, adding: So she suggests "new pro-
Speed up the building of public housing
"I've been waiting for three years grams", able to cope with local
for new specialised resident doc- demand and attract international
tors.'' students.
Build a public hospital in Taipa Vong says universities should
Class action up their game but stops short of
Recruit more doctors from outside Macau
calling for government inspec-
Teresa Vong, director of the tions of them. Also, at a time
Educational Research Centre of where long distance programs are
Improve accountability mechanisms Macau University, was happy to getting more and more popular,
in private schools
learn from Edmund Ho's speech the professor believes there should
that the government was going to be some rules to protect both local
Improve performance assessment
put more into education but she institutions and local students - in
wonders how will it be able to re- effect, guaranteeing the quality of
in tertiary education inforce supervision in the sector.
the services which people often
As Vong points out, almost 85 pay highly for.
Introduce new programs
percent of the schools in Macau With a year remaining of
are private, so it is difficult for the Edmund Ho's tenure, many peo-
to attract international students
government to impose rules. ple are already thinking of the
While recognising that "the next Chief Executive. So believes
Improve the rules
intentions are good", she remains that after the corruption case that
for long distance programs
worried about the issue of account- tainted Edmund Ho's last year,
ability. Not that she believes there the next boss "doesn't have to be a
should be wholesale government good one, just a clean one".
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