The awesome breakthroughs in engineering, science and medicine in recent years need no further elaboration on my part. These knowledge have improved our lives and our way of living in many ways. Yet, we must not be complacent with the present. We must keep update with these innovations and technologies in order to play an active part in tomorrow's world. As teachers of our next generation, you shoulder a very important task, and that is to provide an environment inducive to scientific learning, to instil an inquisitive mind in your students, and to stimulate them to think and learn, creatively, independently, and logically.
Science education is the key to the birth of new technologies and innovations.
It is all the more important now than ever. The SAR Government has responded positively in this direction, and has laid paramount importance to innovation and technology. Together we have a responsibility to impart knowledge of this kind to our students. Our staff have been very active in promoting science education to secondary schools. The Biochemistry Department conducted seminars and courses on biochemistry for secondary biology and human biology teachers with the Education Department.