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COMAC's Seventh Annual Report

The Chief Secretary presented to the Legislative Council today (Wednesday) the Seventh Annual Report of the Commissioner for Administrative Complaints (COMAC).

A Government spokesman said: "We will respond to COMAC's Seventh Annual Report with a Government Minute."

The Government Minute would cover the action the Administration has taken or proposes to take in response to COMAC's recommendation in his reports on complaints investigated in July 1994 to June this year. It would be tabled in the Legislative Council in three months' time.

End/Wednesday, July 19, 1995

Sex education

Following is a question by the Hon Tik Chi-yuen and a reply by the Secretary for Education and Manpower, Mr Michael Leung, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

According to a survey conducted by the Curriculum Development Institute, some students begin to have intimate contacts and relationship with the opposite sex in varying degrees when they are in secondary school. Will the Government inform this Council:

(a)

(b)

(c)

what action has been taken, apart from carrying out research studies through the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to make the sex education curriculum more in tune with the needs of students;

how it can ensure that all teachers are provided with sufficient training to enable them to impart proper sexual knowledge to students; and

how it will promote co-operation between families and schools with a view to helping students to obtain proper sex knowledge?