Education: Hope for newcomers in Europe
3.2.3. Fluctuation and heterogeneity It must be acknowledged that the education administration has to cope with high numbers and fluctuation with regards to migrant children. At the beginning of the 2017/2018 school year, 2,145 students were attending specific courses for German language learners in general public schools and 1,477 in vocational education (Bremische Bürgerschaft, 2017), constituting around four per cent of all students with variations by school type and subregion. Figure 4 shows that more than 800 students started a preparatory course at the beginning of the new school year in August 2016, being joined monthly by 100 to 200 extra students.
Figure 3. Monthly numbers of new students in preparatory German courses in Bremen
Explanation: orange – migrants from European Union and other states; green – unaccompanied minors; blue – children of refugees Source: Senatorin für Kinder und Bildung https://www.bildung.bremen.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=117153 Accessed 25 August 2017.
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