Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2016 Students pursuing the Science stream from Grade Eight onwards get the chance to study Biology which contained an extensive chapter on Reproduction, providing those students with SRH related information. The chapter gives an explanation about human reproductive systems, reproductive organs, sexual intercourse, birth and contraception. However, the chapter on reproduction was not taught to the students until they reached Grade Nine. One important aspect noted was that this information was received by the students in the Science Stream only. It is important to note that, information and subjects taught for these grades were the same for both Government and International Schools as they used the same text books and followed the same curriculum as they would be sitting for Cambridge IGCSE and GCE O ’level exams after the 10th grade. 3.3 Higher Secondary Education The Higher secondary education comprises of grades 11 and 12, where students are again divided into three streams –Science, Business and Arts. In these grades students have to study a total of 5 subjects including Dhivehi and Islam. Science stream students are given the option of choosing 2 subjects from among Biology, Chemistry, Physics, or from the main optional subjects, Math and English Literature. Only those students studying Biology as a subject will get the relevant information about SRH. However, many students are known to pursue the Biology text book on their own to get information on reproduction and other related information regardless of their stream. The Islam module does not include much information on SRH. The only topic even closely related to the subject is the topic on ‘Marriage’. Here again, the amount of information given was completely left to the respective teacher. 27 STATUS OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION IN MALDIVES