Annual Report 2010–11

6 糧食作物的產量和抗逆性；以及以腦 血管支架幫助中風病人康復。以上所 舉僅為其中的犖犖大者，本年報〈開 拓人類知識的版圖〉一章會報道更多 過去一年本校的出色研究。這些研究 深具學術價值，但更重要的是，它們 有助於令人類生活更美好，因此深得 學術界和相關行業人士推許。這些研 究項目不少是學者幾十年心血所聚， 它們為研究人員贏得眾所仰望的獎項 和榮耀，光照中文大學的學術殿堂。 當然，教學與研究是相輔相成的。教 學有助啟發前沿研究，出色的研究又 造就優秀教師。為了達成大學的使 命，我們十分着重人文學科，並正致 力增加人文學科在本科課程中所佔 比例。此外，我們還制訂了新的通識 課程，這不但是為配合 2012 至 13 年度 恢復本科四年制帶來的轉變，而且能 令學生對通識科目有更全面深入的 了解。 中大五所新書院相繼成立，對於我們 加強人文學科教育也有很大幫助。這 些新書院在形式和精神上類近於歐 洲古老學府，都是有全宿共膳的設施 和規矩。事實證明書院生活是言傳身 教的有效媒介，我們可以透過書院生 活向學生灌輸正確的人生觀和道德價 值觀，令學生在日後發展事業時有所 遵循，並協助他們培養面對問題的積 極態度和得體的行為準則。中大校園 依山而建，平地稀缺，我們的書院沒 有歐洲古老大學那種修道院般的紅磚 建築，但隨着新院舍陸續落成啟用， 書院氣氛正日添濃厚，師生也樂見其 成，樂享其利。 academic peers as well as the relevant industries as major contributions to learning and, much more importantly, to the genuine betterment of human life. Many of these projects represent decades of commitment and efforts, and have earned for their researchers much coveted prizes and qualifications, which indeed help to illumine the academic firmament above our campus. Of course teaching only benefits from cutting-edge research, and top quality research begets great teachers. To better fulfil the University’s mission, we are seeking to increase the proportion and importance of humanistic studies in our undergraduate programmes, and a new General Education curriculum is now in place not only to comply with changes brought about by the reversion to the four-year undergraduate curriculum in 2012–13, but one which in itself provides for a more comprehensive and in-depth approach to the subject. Our renewed effort to augment our existing regime of education in the humanities is vastly helped by the foundation of five new Colleges at the University, some of which rather close cousins, in form as well as in spirit, to their ancient European prototypes in being fully residential with communal dining facilities and rituals. College life has proved to be an effective way through which we may inculcate in the students the precepts of life, the ethics and values with which students should hold fast to in their future careers, and the manners and decency with which problems are to be resolved. Owing to the hilly terrain of the campus and the scarcity of land, quads and cloisters might have to remain as ideals for a while, but a new collegiate atmosphere is certainly building up, to the benefit of, and being much appreciated by, both teachers and students.