Macau Yearbook 2013 - Macao Yearbook

Economy1. Continuing Development Series for Employees;2. Training Series for the Middle-aged, which helps middle-aged people to renew and improvetheir vocational skills;3. Training Series for Adolescents, which inspires adolescents’ creativity and vocationalinterests; and4. Enterprise and Business Management Series, specially designed for entrepreneurs andbusiness persons.Training in relation to continuing studies can be categorised as:1. Training series for adolescents;2. Training series for the middle-aged;3. Continuing development series for employees; and4. Business management series for enterprises.Programmes include training courses on fashion and innovation, information technology, businesslanguage and management.In 2012, the centre held a total of 1,152 courses (an increase of 28.4 percent over the previousyear), comprising 23,853 learning hours (up 25.2 percent). The number of students totalled 24,150(up 32.9 percent).Professional and Open ExaminationsThe Professional Examination Resources Unit under the centre manages various professionalqualification public examinations and provides the public with information about these and otherlocal professional examinations. The unit also serves as the Macao Centre for National VocationalQualification Assessment. In 2012, a total of 4,216 candidates applied for examinations via theResources Unit, up by about 19.9 percent over the previous year.At present, there are four types of public examinations available at the Professional ExaminationResources Unit:1. Information Technology, including professional IT certification offered by Prometric andPearson VUE (e.g. Cisco/Microsoft network technology certification), Microsoft OfficeSpecialist (MOS), Adobe Certified Associate certification, Chinese input skills appraisal,China Qualification Certificate of Computer and Software Technology Proficiency andCertified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) certification;2. Commerce and management, including International Standardized Testing Organization(ISTO)’s Tests of Understanding, International Registrar of Certificated Auditors (IRCA)’sCertified Auditor/Lead Auditor examinations, PRINCE2’s project management examinations,City & Guilds ILM’s management principles examinations and LCCI’s business-relatedqualifications examinations. In 2012 AST&L’s Global Logistics Management certificationwas added to the list;179