Secretary for Education Eddie Ng visited the United States National Science Foundation to exchange ideas on funding arrangements for higher education.
He met the foundation’s director France Cordova and other senior representatives.
Mr Ng said that the SAR Government attaches great importance to Science, Technology & Mathematics Education (STEM). It has been providing more research funding opportunities for the higher education sector in recent years.
Primary and secondary education is also an area in which Hong Kong has been making achievements, as revealed by international studies like the Programme for International Student Assessment and the Trends in International Mathematics & Science Study, he added.
The 2015 Policy Address stated that the Education Bureau will renew and enrich the STEM curricula and learning activities, and enhance teachers' training, allowing primary and secondary students to fully unleash their potential in innovation, Mr Ng said.
The US National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 as one of the funding sources for researchers of America's universities and colleges. In the past few decades, NSF-funded researchers have won more than 200 Nobel Prizes.
