{"id":4468,"date":"2019-01-10T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T03:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.ift.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/?p=4468"},"modified":"2019-01-10T11:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T03:11:33","slug":"ifts-first-president-honoured-by-portugal-for-services-to-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/ifts-first-president-honoured-by-portugal-for-services-to-education\/","title":{"rendered":"IFT\u2019s first president honoured by Portugal for services to education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4468 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-herald-lay-a'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"herald-popup\" href='https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo_1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo_1-990x556.jpg\" class=\"attachment-herald-lay-a size-herald-lay-a\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo_1-990x556.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo_1-470x264.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo_1-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo_1-215x120.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo_1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo_1-414x232.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"herald-popup\" href='https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo-990x556.jpg\" class=\"attachment-herald-lay-a size-herald-lay-a\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo-990x556.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo-470x264.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo-215x120.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trigo-414x232.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<span class='pum-trigger  popmake-4470  text-center font-blue' data-do-default=''>\u4e2d\u6587\u6458\u8981 \/ Summary in Chinese<\/span>\n<p>IFT\u2019s first president, Dr. Virg\u00ednia Trigo, has been awarded on behalf of the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the title of Commander of the Order of Public Instruction. Dr. Trigo, who led IFT between 1995 and 2001, was decorated for her services to education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel very pleased and happy with this honour, especially because my country has recognised work that is taking place in China,\u201d Dr. Trigo says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, I was quite surprised,\u201d she adds. \u201cI did not realise that people were paying attention to my work which is mostly conducted out of the limelight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She received the award \u2013 one of Portugal\u2019s highest honours \u2013 at a ceremony held on 14 December in Mainland China at the Consulate General of Portugal in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. It was presented to her by Consul-General Mr. Andr\u00e9 Sobral Cordeiro.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Trigo works as Director of China Programmes for ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, one of Portugal\u2019s top universities. She lives in Mainland China, moving between Chengdu in Sichuan Province, and Guangzhou. She manages 2 high-profile Doctor of Business Administration programmes offered by ISCTE in cooperation respectively with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, based in Chengdu, and Guangzhou\u2019s Southern Medical University.<\/p>\n<p>Her work in the field of education in Asia began in Macao; first at the University of Macau and later at IFT. Dr. Trigo says the award by the Portuguese President also recognises her contributions to the development of IFT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIFT is and will always be, my most cherished memory,\u201d she says. \u201cI spent only 6 years there, but they were extremely intense ones and marked a very important period historically for Macao. All of us felt that, in one way or the other, we were part of history.\u201d That was a reference to the period leading to the return of Macao to China, which took place in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Trigo says being the first president of IFT gave her the opportunity to \u201ccreate something new\u201d. She adds: \u201cI was very lucky to have a fantastic team working with me while setting up IFT; many of its members are still there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Trigo plans to continue engagement in higher education in China. \u201cMy work in China is long term,\u201d she says. \u201cFor the past 10 years, I have been developing 2 doctoral programmes in cooperation with 2 well-reputed universities and the reputation of the programmes is growing exponentially year after year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFT\u2019s first president, Dr. Virg\u00ednia Trigo, has been awarded on behalf of the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the title of Commander of the Order of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,62],"tags":[943],"class_list":["post-4468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main_headline","category-utm-life","tag-virginia-trigo","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"views":1156,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions\/4472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}