subject to the availablity of funds, to consider meeting the additional costs arising from proposed improvements. They are now compiling "activities involvement"
for
inclusion in each refugee's
information
will
records
history. case
This
be made available to resettlement
countries and hopefully, will both help with resettlemtn
and encourage
take advantage
to refugees
of the
educational facilities which are available to them.
Education for children
3.
To
15
They aim
age group
The Hong Kong Government accord first priority to improving education for children in the camps.
to standardise education for the 6 throughout the camps, in order to enable all children to attend school daily for 4 hours (this compares with the 42 hours education provided for local children in Hong
Kong).
maximise the use
classroom of
space, a
bi-sessional system will be introduced whereby half the children will attend classes in the mornings, and half in the afternoons. This is a common form of schooling in
the general lack of Hong Kong because of
space in
in the
territory. Courses will be based оп a core curriculum devised and recommended by
by UNHCR.
will
be English,
Vietname se
The main subjects
and mathematics,
supplemented
by
optional subjects
such as social
physical
studies, health education, arts and crafts,
education and music.
4.
under
This system already operates successfully,
the direction of the Save the Children Fund, at the
newly opened Bowring Closed Centre, and will soon be extended to all the closed camps with the assistance of
at present position
other voluntary agencies.
individual camps i s as follows:
The
a)
At the Chi Ma Wan closed centre,
the Salvation
Army at present provides education for children,
employing
teachers refugee
supervised
by
a
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