Education International Research
Graph 1
School year 2014-2015
Students in the official system
Foreign students
Late arrival students
Source: Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport
In a similar vein, Miguel Recio, director of the IES Vega del Jarama, in Madrid, pointed out that schooling refugee pupils should not entail any extraordinary challenge nowadays, in as much as this population represents approximately 0.1% of the more than 8 million non-university students that start school every year in Spain. The main difficulty in this context therefore lies in the lack of investment into equal opportunities to attend to this pupil profile. Mr Recio pointed to possible actions, including training for the teachers of the centres where pupils with this profile are schooled, the issue of materials to facilitate their integration in the Spanish education system and the recruitment of support (translators, social workers) and educational staff and compensatory teachers to facilitate the integration of refugee children.
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