Description:
Text transcribed from caption: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees. UNRWA/ETJR/24. Recreation at Ramallah Men's Teacher
Training Centre: near Jerusalem. Recreation is an integral part of the
Ramallah Men's Teachers Training Centre. Ramallah Centre, like all UNRWA
vocational training centres is residential and provides a programme designed
to give its students the opportunity for all-round development. The majority
of the students were either born in or spent much of their lives in refugee
camps. As a result, they have not had the time to develop work habits or
discipline and were unsuited for almost any sort of employment. The two year
course at the UNRWA Teacher Training Centre does much to help the boys gain
self-reliance and enables them to contribute constructively to the future of
the Middle East. The capacity of the school in 400 with 200 new students
accepted each year. In all UNRWA has established four teacher training
centres with a total enrollment of nearly 1,500. Curricula follows closely
that of the government centres in their respective countries. Courses include
academic lessons, instruction in teaching methods and period of practice
teaching in nearby schools. Agency training is unconditional. Graduate
students are free to seek employment in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states.
Results to date have been excellent. Of the 585 students who graduated from
the Ramallah centre in '65, '66 and '67, 390 are employed in Arab countries,
849
Creator:
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. (publisher)
Subject names:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Church World Service--Archives., United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Topics:
Refugees--Rām Allāh., Refugees, Palestinian Arab--Rām Allāh., Refugees--Education--Rām Allāh.
Geographic subjects:
Rām Allāh.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288031