Tam herself graduated from the department of educational psychology at National Taiwan Normal University in 1985, and joined Macau's department of education in 1987, before eventually moving to the directorate of administration and rising to the post of division chief in just 11 years.
譚惠珠一九八五年從台灣師大教育心理系畢業，八七年進入澳門政府教育司，後又轉入行政公職司，才十一年的時間，已晉升為處長。