OECD Thematic Review on
Migrant Education
Country Responses: Overview
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Number of countries: 9
Number of country background reports: 5
Number of responses to questionnaire A: 3
Type of additional information provided:
– Statistics
– Academic articles
– Policy documents
Link to policy initiatives
(EDU/EDPC/MI(2008)10)
Student level
• Language
– Austria: extra tuition for students with
insufficient command of the national
language.
– Sweden: Education Act provides newly arrived
adult immigrants with language tuition
– Italy: language tuition of immigrant families
School/Community level
• First encounter
– UK: New Arrivals Excellence Programme (NAEP) includes
support to immigrant parents to familiarise themselves
with the education system
• Teachers
– Denmark: reform of teaching education and dissemination
project within schools to include knowledge and awareness
of teaching immigrant students.
• Family and community involvement
– Ireland: Home School Community Scheme, which links
immigrant parents and school via the help of liaison
officers.
System level
• Funding strategies
– Hungary: additional subsidies for schools with
high proportions of migrant pupils whose
mother tongue is not Hungarian.
• Early Childhood Education and Care
– Netherlands: targeting migrant children ‘s
participation in pre-primary and early
primary education