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“The programme covers fundamental knowledge in food and nutritional science, biochemistry, chemistry, marketing, and food safety. Besides, the programme curriculum also covers generic skills such as Chinese, English, Putonghua and Understanding Social Problems in Hong Kong, which help to strengthen my abilities in language, critical thinking and communication. With the knowledge, I was able to develop a solid foundation in food and nutritional science with essential skills for work.

‘What to learn’ is crucial, but ‘How to learn’ is important too. All the lecturers are professional. Some courses are taught by professors of the University of Hong Kong; therefore, the teaching quality is assured. With the interactive lectures and the challenging assignments, I easily understood and applied what I learnt during the lectures. Furthermore, visits to food business like Cathy Pacific Catering Services (H.K.) Limited allowed me to apply the theoretical knowledge learned from the lectures. This teaching mode is much more effective and interesting than the one in secondary education; it aroused my interest in studying a lot.”

在書院兩年的學習，不但認識了一群志同道合的好朋友，更難得的是認清自己的興趣，找到了自己的理想，努力向著目標邁進。

選擇修讀營養及食品管理高級文憑課程是由於中學時是修讀理科，對生物、化學科目比較感興趣，亦有一些認識。入讀後，我才發現課程比我想像中更為有趣、實用。過去兩年，書院經常為我們安排不同類型的活動，印象最深刻的是跟具規模的社康服務團體合作，策劃名為「健營閃耀在社區」的項目，負責舉辦數個不同類型的活動，包括嘉年華會、講座、工作坊或攤位遊戲等，讓社區人士參加，推廣健康飲食和生活。透過策劃及參與這些活動，給予我很多發揮的機會，也令我確立了自己的理想 ––– 立志成為註冊營養師。

從剛入讀時缺乏方向到今天擁有清晰的目標，我會為實現自己的理想而全力以赴，希望日後成為一位能夠幫助有需要的人的營養師。

Keep striving for it! If you are certainly interested in food and nutrition, I am sure choosing this programme would be an important step for you to further pursue either a higher education or a career related to the field.

In the past one year, I enjoyed an enriched school life in the College. A few of interesting projects allowed me to acquire knowledge about regulations on food label, catering service, calculation of nutrition value, etc.. One of these projects allowed us to design, prepare and serve a healthy meal all the way on our own. We needed to involve in every step from procurement to serving.  On top of that, numbers of field studies and seminars allowed me to be more familiar with the catering service, food and nutrition industries.