Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2016 3.4 Life Skills programme Life Skills is a broad area of study which is addressed in the curriculum through a cross curricular approach, where the different aspects of Life Skills are addressed through various key competencies such as understanding and managing your personal self and Relating to People, etc. These programmes, however were solely conducted in schools in the capital Male’ and often does not have a specific section for SRH. During the FGDs held, students from two schools in Male' did mention that they had participated in life skills classes. However, there was only one school which had covered some issues regarding SRH within these classes. 4. New Developments since 2012 The Education Development Center (EDC) has been since rebranded as National Institute of Education (NIE) which is a merger of former Center for Continuing Education and EDC. The Ministry established and commenced the new curriculum with the Key Stage 1 which includes Grades 1, 2 and 3 in 2015, and Key Stage 2 which includes Grades 4, 5 and 6 in 2016. During the validation process with MOE in 2015, it was stated that aspects of Life‐skills Education has been integrated into the new curriculum. According to the Ministry it is more prominently included in the new subjects Health and Physical Education and Science. Further, NIE with the assistance from UNFPA hired a consultant in May 2015 to provide technical support for the integration of components of the UNESCO standards of SRHE in the roll out of the National Curriculum. Additionally, the consultant would help to develop the contents for teachers’ trainings and the advocacy programs to support the delivery of the National Curriculum. 28 STATUS OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION IN MALDIVES