The MPI Teaching Materials Development Committee was established in 2007 to promote teaching quality and teaching standards at the Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI), to regulate teaching work, to develop teaching materials which meet the growing needs of the Macao community and higher education and which are congruent with MPI programmes and teaching, and to organize the teaching materials development work for the degree programmes of all the Schools of MPI and other Institute courses (English, Computing, Mathematics, Putonghua and Cantonese). The MPI Teaching Materials Development Committee is chaired by the Vice-President of the Institute, and includes members from all Schools of MPI, the Academic Affairs Department, the Library, the Division for Pedagogical Affairs, the Division for Research and Publications, the English Language Teaching and Research Committee, the Computer Teaching and Research Committee, and the Putonghua Teaching Standardization Co-ordination Group. The MPI Teaching Materials Development Committee is itself sub-divided into 2 working groups – The School Teaching Materials Development Working Group and the Institute Teaching Materials Development Working Group. The School Teaching Materials Development Working Group is responsible for organizing the teaching materials development work of the main courses of the Schools of MPI, while the Institute Teaching Materials Development Working Group is responsible for organizing the teaching materials selection and approval work of other Institute courses.