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Its Recommendations
1.7 Refugee schools should be
of a standard comparable
to that required for
registration under the
Education Ordinance
1.8 Education Department should
inspect the refugee schools
and suggest ways to
improve their standards
and facilities
1.9
ED to provide training
course for Vietnamese
teachers
1.10 Elementary education should be
carried out inside the
refugee centres while further
education outside centres
should be opened to open
centre refugees on a
competitive basis and to
the closed centre refugees
on a case by case basis.
Education for refugee
children should be
compulsory
Comments/Follow-up Action
The points on Education facilities
were not immediately followed up
by us because we had then just turned over the responsibility of providing education for refugees to the UNHCR and improvements were already being made. The UNHCR
employed an Education Co-ordinator
in 1986 to improve the curriculum and school facilities in the refugee
centres. Since then there has been
substantial improvement in both
areas. For example, there is now
a separate educational complex
in each closed centre and also a
UNHCR-funded central resource
unit for distribution of teaching
material. At present the HKG
is considering proposals from the UNHCR for integrating refugee
children into the local education
system. Modified proposals have
been endorsed by the LegCo Ad Hoc
Group in principle with a view to
improving the resettlement chances
of the refugees. ExCo will be
consulted in March. We did not
enforce compulsory education for
the refugee children as proposed
because we have no sanction over
them if they refuse to attend
school. In addition, compulsory education initiated by the HKG would result in the government
being asked to contribute to
the expenses of upgrading the refugee education. At present
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education remains unchanged.