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• Vesti Segodnya interviews director of the Riga 15th secondary school about education of foreign students

Vesti Segodnya interviews director of the Riga 15th secondary school Tatjana Kubasova about education of foreign students in the school. According to the director, there were 22 foreign students during 2013-2014 school year, but the first four foreign children entered the school four years ago. Mrs Kubasova says that families of foreign students come to Latvia due to different reasons – such as work, studies or in search for more secure and better life. The biggest difficulties educating foreign children teachers face if there is no intermediary language to communicate with them and there were cases when interpreter was invited. At first, foreign children attend individual classes on Russian or Latvian language and study for three-four hours the most basic issues. When the basic issues are mastered, foreign children join classes with the rest of the local students. According to the director, all foreign students who already graduated successfully passed the exams in Russian, Latvian and English languages. Some of the students continue to study in higher education establishments.