The Newcastle Herald has published an editorial about science literacy following the Chief Scientist’s visit to the Hunter Region. The piece discusses Professor Chubb’s public lecture in Newcastle, in which he stressed the importance of science education and innovation to regional development.

Professor Chubb is saying that even the near future might be so different from today that its reality could be beyond our imaginations. As he notes, the first generation of Australians is already growing up having never seen the world ––free from an internet connection’’ and all that it entails.

For these young people, science, technology, engineering and mathematics – whether they know it or not – are at the core of their being. We could go on importing our progress from overseas but, as Professor Chubb told his Tuesday audience, we cannot expect to ––prosper from the glow of someone else’s big ideas’’.

Read the full article online here at the Newcastle Herald website.