Steps taken to ensure sports safety at schools

The Ministry of Education has taken steps to ensure students' safety during sports lessons, but reducing hours spent on sports is not an option.

A regulation on campus sports injuries released on Thursday requires elementary and middle schools to follow national quality standards when selecting sports equipment and to keep records of purchases and use of sports venues for tracking safety.

While every school should have its own emergency procedures, education authorities must guide and supervise such safety routines, which are a key factor in school evaluation.