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Reply:

Mr President,

(a)

Over the past three years, a total of 2,550 pre- service and 363 in-service teachers have received training/re-training in sex education.

The pre-service figure is made up of 2,500 students from the former Colleges of Education, and 50 students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The in-service figure wholly relates to serving teachers who attended the special training courses in sex education sponsored or run by the Education Department.

During the same period, 62 schools have borrowed teaching or display materials related to sex education from the two Education Department Sex Education Resource Centres.

(b)

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This survey is being conducted by a research team from the Chinese University of Hong Kong on behalf of the Education Department. It is scheduled for completion in August this year.

The Education Department will review the Guidelines on Sex Education in the light of the results of the survey mentioned at (b) above. The Department intends to involve professionals, school principals, teachers, parents and members of the public in this review.

(d) Besides the Guidelines on Sex Education, over 60 topics relating to sex education are currently taught at different levels in the context of ten different school subjects e.g. biology, social studies etc. While these topics are reviewed regularly, the need for separate curricula for different school levels will be considered in the review mentioned at (c) above.

End/Wednesday, April 26, 1995