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their only hope, if we cannot guarantee to the younger group, who have not arrived here with skills, reasonable openings that suit their needs. It is axiomatic that there should be more generous eligibility criteria and a positive discrimination in funding such curses. There is still no certainity of a 1985/6 series of Poole/Bournemouth courses. Any extra pressure that can be exerted to assure the con- tinuation of this 'emergency' provision would help to continue one of the most successful employment-related exercises for the Vietnamese (see my report on 1983/4 courses).
Community Programme.
You mentioned a BRC submission to SCORRI on elicibility criteria of MSC-funded schemes, particularly the CP Programme. Could you tell me that has been submitted, and why carticularly the CP scheme, which is the most transient of all MSC schemes. Do you mean the BRC scheme, or the many other local CP schemes in which refugues play a part? For the former you already had evidence and pressures close at hand but I hope that the points I have raised on YTS and Preparatory Courses are equally helpful. I would welcome support for the widening of eligibility criteria for refugees on all MSC schemes.
ESL Provision and Mother-tongue classes.
The stipulation in 1944 that LEAS have to provide education suitable to the requirements of the children in their area places an chlication to make proper provision. Forty years later this ill varies from area to area. No undertaking s offered to provide a fixed or even a generous number of years of education/training to a newly arrived refugee who might, for example, at the age of 15 arrive in this country. Clearly special provision should be made available for those who have had only a few years in the statutory education system. It is their need, not their age, which is the critical factor.
. Thus it is not surprising that as the government, through EEC,
is only directed to 'promote' not provide as of right, the teaching of mother tongue languages; any pressure than can be put to extend the promotion of this issue will be even more difficult to achieve. Where battles are won, it will inevitably be where there are large groups close together, which leaves those with the greatest problems with the greatest problems.
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