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Question No 4

Reply by the Hon. R.G.B. Bridge, OBE, JP, Secretary for Education and Manpower

to a Question from the Hon Mrs Pauline NG, JP in the Legislative Council on 7 January 1987

Question: Will Government inform this Council what is the

existing policy on the provision of sex

education in schools and the progress made SO

far?

Sir,

The present policy, based on the advice of the

Curriculum Development Committee and the Board of

Education, is to encourage schools to introduce sex

education; at primary level, through the subject of Health

Education; and, at secondary level, through various

relevant subjects in the curriculum such as Biology, Human

Biology, Home Economics, Religious Education and Social

Studies; and through talks, seminars or similar

outside the formal curriculum. This approach was endorsed

by school principals at a seminar held in 1985.

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