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HOME ECONOMICS AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION COURSES

The Department has been asked if there is a provincial
regulation which requires that Industrial Education 8 be limited
to boys and Home Economics 8 be limited to girls. There is no
such regulation. However, learning outcomes, knowledge, skills
and activities and the facilities recommended for these courses
have been determined in the light of traditional enrolment practices.
A change in these practices may be quite desirable but if it is
not accompanied by some major changes in the various components of
the courses, their educational value would be minimal.

Schools are invited to review their enrolment practices
and to change them if they consider it desirable and feasible to
do so, provided the courses are adjusted to make them appropriate.
All courses in both provincial programmes are under review and
revision with a view to increasing their appropriateness for pupils
of either sex. There is also the provision for locally developed
courses which may be used if it is considered in the best educational
interests of the students to make available tearming opportunities
in these puelae for pupils of either sex.

J. R. Meredith
Superintendent
Educational Programs-Schools