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Courses on drug education for secondary school teachers
The Education Department is organising a series of three-day drug education courses which will last until mid-August in order to achieve the target of training one teacher for every secondary school on drug education by 1997.
These training courses are part of the effort to step up anti-drug education as advocated at the Governor's anti-drug summit. Since July 1994, more than 200 schools have sent their teachers to attend drug education courses.
A principal inspector of the department's Advisory Inspectorate, Mr Ho Chung- nin, said: "These courses aim at enhancing teachers' knowledge on drug, equipping them with skills to handle students with drug problem and briefing them on the ways of conducting preventive drug education in school.
"Priority will be given to schools sending their teachers for the first time."
Six drug education courses with a total enrolment of 210 will be run. Five of them are jointly organised by the Advisory Inspectorate and the Community Drug Advisory Council.
The other is a regular course jointly organised by the Inspectorate and the Narcotics Division.
Apart from running training courses for teachers, the department has launched a pilot scheme on school-based drug education courses in 21 schools and sponsored the Life Education Activity Programme.
In addition, the department has also developed model programmes for parents, staged a roving exhibition, set up a pilot home-school link enquiry service in three schools and opened a drug education resource centre.
Education programmes have also been introduced in 12 drug treatment and rehabilitation centres for drug abusers aged 18 or below, and research was initiated on the use of peer support and life skill counsellors to beat drugs.
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