Practical Education for Life
Fennell asks about practical life-skills education, including budgeting, childcare, sex education and tax forms. The Chair rules that this is a separate question and does not arise on the original question.
Does the Minister see it as important that we should have education at second level which has generally been called "education for life"? I think we would all accept that our educational system at that level is too academically based and that many young people come out of school——
Comment on this
Would the Minister consider the importance of having a course which would deal with matters such as home budgeting, child care, sex education, marriage preparation, ensuring that young people coming out of school can at least fill in a tax form and understand about——