To accord closely with Macao SAR Government’s “1+4” Appropriate Economic Diversification Development Plan and cultivate interdisciplinary talents needed by the city and the Greater Bay Area (GBA), Macao University of tourism (UTM) integrates its own academic knowledge of the tourism industry with high-tech practitioners from the industry to pave the way for graduates’ future development and opportunities.
Recently, 42 UTM undergraduate and postgraduate students have successfully gained the Alibaba Cloud Certificate Associate – Cloud Computing ACA certification. This is a professional certification in the information technology (IT) industry. In fact, UTM and Alibaba Cloud Academy have been piloting the “Alibaba Cloud Academic Empowerment Program (AAEP)” since 2021 with positive results. Under its new curriculum, UTM has officially implemented AAEP in IT-related courses in the 2023/2024 academic year.
With this, programmes at UTM have been effectively upgraded to an…