TALKS TO STRENGTHEN HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION SOON

The Ministry of Education will soon meet officials from the Human Rights and AntiDiscrimination Commission to discuss ways to further strengthen the curriculum on human rights education in schools.

A number of human rights education topics are currently part of the Year 9 and 10 Social Science curriculums.

Ministry of Education curriculum advisory services director Vimlesh Chand said they had received an expression of interest from the commission if there was a need to strengthen subjects in that area.

Mr Chand said a meeting on this regard would be organised soon.

He said the forum was one of the ways to allow for more open consultations through which stakeholders could include their views. “Once the development in the curriculum is done, it can withstand scrutiny from all the other sectors,” Mr Chand said.

On this regard, the Minister for Education, Heritage and Arts, Mahendra Reddy, said the Commission was currently preparing materials which would be handed over to curriculum section of the ministry soon.

In the meantime, he said: “The ministry has been requested to facilitate education on the newly done security policy by the Defence Ministry which covered human rights aspects.”

This would also happen soon, Mr Reddy said.