The School of Education of City University of Macau recently successfully held the 2025–2026 Academic Year Programme Quality Assurance Group Meeting. The meeting was chaired by Associate Professor Dai Yi, Programme Director of the School of Education, and was attended by Professor Cheng Liying, Dean of the School, full-time faculty members, external experts, and student representatives from various programmes, who engaged in in-depth exchanges on topics including School development, teaching quality, programme optimization, and teaching innovation.
The meeting began with an address by Dean Cheng. The School has always upheld the philosophy of "teaching and nurturing, with emphasis on nurturing" and adhered to leading high-quality teaching with high-level research. Over the 13 years since its establishment, the School of Education has focused on postgraduate education and has become an important talent cultivation base in Macau. With the "Institute for Global Education Research and Innovation" and the "Artificial Intelligence Education Research and Innovation Laboratory" as its academic and practical foundations, the discipline of Education ranked 250th–300th globally in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings and has received the University's Outstanding Teaching Award for multiple consecutive years, demonstrating strong educational strength and teaching standards.
Associate Professor Dai Yi reviewed the teaching operations and quality assurance situation over the past year in his report. Throughout the year, the School regularly held academic conferences, thematic seminars, and thesis ethics lectures, and strictly implemented examination and programme assessment systems to continuously improve teaching quality. Student teaching evaluation results showed that the average satisfaction with the School's faculty was significantly higher than the university-wide average, fully reflecting students' high recognition of teaching quality and programme arrangements.
During the exchange session, master's and doctoral student representatives affirmed the training the School's programmes provided in macro perspectives, research methods, and AI education skills, and suggested further incorporating local educational practice visits, strengthening interdisciplinary learning, and deepening the research supervisor feedback mechanism.
Two external education experts highly affirmed the School's programme development and quality management, and suggested offering "Frontier Topics" courses, deepening practical teaching such as observation, practicum, and internship, promoting project-based outcome assessment, and strengthening AI education applications to cultivate students' ability to solve practical problems and their potential for research innovation.
In his concluding remarks, Dean Cheng thanked the experts and student representatives for their constructive opinions, stating that the School would seriously study and incorporate the relevant suggestions, continuously optimize the programme structure and teaching model, promote deep integration of artificial intelligence and educational practice, and work together with the newly recruited faculty team to jointly enhance the teaching and research quality of the School of Education of City University of Macau.
