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Sex education in schools
Following is a question by the Hon Ip Kwok-him and a reply by the Secretary for Education and Manpower, Mr Joseph W P Wong, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday);
Questions:
The findings of a survey reveal that 60% of the schools in the territory are not able to offer comprehensive sex education courses due to a shortage of teachers with training in sex education and a lack of the required resources. In view of this, will the Government inform this Council:
Reply:
(a)
(b)
Mr President,
(a)
of the progress in providing training courses on sex education for teachers, and the number of teachers who have enrolled in such courses; and
in view of young people's more open attitude towards sex in recent years, what measures the Education Department has put in place to encourage schools to make sex education more readily available in schools in order that students can have a proper understanding of sex?
To train more teachers on sex education, the Education Department has provided the following in-service teacher training courses on sex education in the last three school years from 1993 to 1996:
five courses each of three days for 214 secondary school teachers; and
two courses each of one day for 128 primary school teachers.
The Education Department plans to offer two 3-day courses for secondary school teachers and two 2-day courses for primary school teachers in 1996/97. The target enrolment for each course is 60. If there is an increase in demand, enrolment will be increased to 75 per course and more courses will be offered.
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