260
46
259
Title of Course
Location for a
Written Answers
Dute
24 JULY 1981
Expenditure £
1,369
multicultural
society
September 1980
Teaching and learning
in multicultural
primary schools
April 1981
2,178
Teaching and learning
in multicultural
secondary schools
April 1981
1,275
Education for a
multicultural
society
March 1979
802
The special needs of
Asian and
Caribbean children
in the classroom
* 1978-79
1,280
Merseyside: an
exploration of an international
* Autumn 1979-
Spring 1980
The role of music and
community
drama in a
multicultural
society
Spoken Hindustani
Schools in a
multicultural
society
Towards a
December 1979 August 1979
HKK 3/1
1979-80
731
1,175 530
2,978
multicultural
education
February 1981:
250
Language problems in
multi-ethnic
schools
* Spring 1981
$575
Education for a
multicultural society with
special reference
to curriculum development and organisation
No Mas
* Autumn 1980- Spring 1981
1,760
* These courses took place on various dates within the period indicated.
In addition, my Department has provided £52,000 grant support for a research project on in-service teacher education in a multi-racial society at the University of Keele over the period 1978-81.
Public Lending Right
Mr. Cormack asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he expects to be able to go out to consultation on the draft scheme for a public lending right from public libraries.
Mr. Channon: I am glad to be able to tell the House that the scheme is being issued for consultation today. I am putting a copy in the Library.
Subject to views expressed, I expect to lay the scheme before Parliament for approval in the autumn and to bring it into force in the New Year. The collection of information on loans of registered books from public libraries and the setting up of the register of authors would then begin as soon as possible thereafter.
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Hong Kong (Vietnamese Refugees)
Dr. Edmund Marshall asked the Lord Privy Seal how many Vietnamese refugees are still in Hong Kong.
133
Written Answers
Mr. Ridley: On 23 July there were 19,339 Vietnamese refugees still in Hong Kong.
Legal Proceedings Convention (Northern Ireland)
Mr. J. Enoch Powell asked the Lord Privy Seal why he regards the convention of 3 December 1937 between the United Kingdom and Switzerland on legal proceedings as not extending to Northern Ireland without express notification; and whether such notification has been or will be made.
Mr. Luce: In so far as civil proceedings in Northern Ireland are concerned, article 8 has the effect of excluding Swiss citizens from the rights accorded by the convention until such time as the. United Kingdom notifies Switzerland through the diplomatic channel that the operation of the convention shall extend to Northern Ireland. A notification in these terms was addressed to the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs by the British embassy in Berne on 26 May 1981, and the extension came into force on 26 June 1981.
As regards civil proceedings in Switzerland the provisions of the convention are held to apply, by virtue of the nationality definition in article 1(b)(5), to "all subjects of Her Majesty wherever domiciled" including, of course, those living in Northern Ireland.
British Council
Mr. Gordon Wilson asked the Lord Privy Seal how many visitors, students and trainees on engineering and industrial studies programmes the British Council placed on courses in the United Kingdom in August 1980.
Mr. Ridley: I regret that statistics are not readily available. I shall provide the hon. Member with this information as soon as it is assembled.
Mr. Gordon Wilson asked the Lord Privy Seal how many fellowship students supported by the European development fund the British Council placed in programmes in the United Kingdom between January and June 1981..
Mr. Ridley: 126 students sponsored by the European development fund began their training in the United Kingdom between January and June 1981.
Mr. Gordon Wilson asked the Lord Privy Seal how many foreign students on main course English language study the British Council placed in colleges in the United Kingdom during the months of March and April 1981.
Mr. Ridley: One overseas student began main course English language study during the months of March and April 1981.
Helsinki Final Act
Mr. Loveridge asked the Lord Privy Seal what progress was made in the implementation by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Eastern European countries of the Helsinki final act during the last six months.
Mr. Hurd: During the last six-month period there have been no significant changes in the record of Eastern European and Soviet implementation of the commitments made under the Helsinki final act, although there has been a deterioration on the part of some countries. In Poland,
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