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co-operation with voluntary agencies. The provision of educational facilities and programmes fall, within the direct responsibility of the UNHCR'S educational co-ordinator Isce Para 15 below) whose tasks include the, main- tenance of adequate educational standards in the open camps tsailar to those in the closed camps and the co-ordination of programmes in these camps with these provided in the closed camps. The following paragraphs therefore refer only to the situation in the closed camps.)
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15. Provision has been made for the education and training of children and adults in the closed camps ever since the camps were first established in July 1982. However, the current aim of the Hong Kong Government and the UNHCR is to develop and expand present arrangements on a co-ordinated basis in order to provide the same basic form of education in cach of the camps. To assist in this task, the UNHCR appointed a full time educational co-ordinator in February 1935. They have also agreed, subject to the availability of funds, to consider meeting the additional costs arising from proposed improvements, They are now compiling "activities involvement" records for inclusion in each refugee's case history. This information will be made available to resettlement countries and hopefully, will both help with resettlement and encouery refugees to take advantage of the educational facilities which are available to them.
Education for Children
16. The Hong Kong Government accord first priority to improving education for children in the camps. They aim to standardise education for Uk - 615 age group throughout the camps, in order to enable all children to attend school daily for four hours (this compares with the four and a half hom's edugation provided for local children in Hong Kong). To maximise the use of clusivóm space, a bi sessional system will be introduced when by hali the children will attend classes in the mornings, and half in the afternoons. This is a common form of schooling in Hong Kong because of the general lack of space in the territory: Courses will be based on a core curriculum devised and recommended by the UNHCR. The main subjects will be English. Vietnameset and mathe- matics, supplemented by optional subjects such as social studies. health education, arts and craits, physical education and music.
17. This system already operates successfully, under 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 other voluntary agencies. The present position at individual camps is as follows:
(a) At the Chi Ma Wan closed centre, the Salvation Army at present provides education for children, employing refugee teachers supervised by a Government head teacher. The Hong Kong International Social Service (BKISS) will shortly take over these responsibilities, with financial support provided by the UNHCR, and plats in provide instruction on a four hour, bi-sessional basis from September this year. The Salvation Army currently assists in the training of refugee teachers and the teaching of English to refugee children, and may continue to provide this assistance if HKISS requests it to do so.
(b). At the Cape Collinson and Hei Ling Chau closed centres, education is provided by the World Relief voluntary agency: World Relief have
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