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students into groups in order to cater to their individual needs.
There are five groups in the secondary and pre-secondary programme:
1. Since students are admitted to the Institute with the requirement that they have attained Quarta Classe (between four
and six years of primary school), there is often a gap between
the subject matter taught in Standard VII at the Kurasini International College (the African-American Institute secondary
school) and the knowledge possessed by a graduate of Quarta
Classe.  The student may be slightly more advanced in maths,but
be behind in history and geography and perhaps even in science,
depending on the quality of the school the student had perviously
attended in Mozambique.  Therefore, in cooperation with the
African-American Institute teachers, the student is given fill-in
studies in order that he may at least begin at Standard VII level,
that being the beginning class at the Kurasini International
College.  This group is taught in Portuguese and studies maths,
science, history and geography.
2. There is a general regulation at the Kursini International
College that no student may enter a class after a term is well
under way.  This regulation is understandable, for although
refugees come into Tanzania at any time of the year, if the
students are allowed to enter the school at any time, classes
would be disrupted and continuity would be lost.  Therefore,
while the students wait for a new term to begin, they are tutored
in the major secondary courses at whatever level is required by
their individual need.  Students are also in this group who are
waiting for sufficient numbers to build up to justify a new
English class at the Kurasini International College.  These
classes are taught in Portuguese.
3. Since the medium of instruction at the Kurasini International College is English, it is necessary for the students
to spend some time learning this language.  The amount of time
it takes for a student to gain facility in this new language
varies from student to student.  Under the more concentrated
programme of English training now in operation at the Kurasini
International College, one optimistic prediction of the time
needed has been six months.  I am more inclined to think it will
take at least a year for a student to really be able to attend
secondary classes and understand what the teachers are saying.
Nevertheless, whether it takes the student a short or a longtime, he is taught his secondary subjects in, Portuguese at the
Mozambique Institute while he is studying English at the Kurasini
International College.  In this way the student aoeen't lose a year's
educational advance, and at the same time, it helps to allay the
frustrations of the student who must not only learn a new language, but must also change from one system of education to another.
*igain, the Mozambique Institute teachers try to work closely with
the African-American Institute teachers in order that the material
covered at the Mozambique Institute will be the same as that
taught to a student at the Kurasini International College who
speaks English and is enrolled in the full English-speaking programme.
4. Once a student moves into the English-speaking secondary
school programme, he is not again put into Portuguese-speaking
classes at the Mozambique Institute.  Rather, if a student is
making below average marks in any of his courses, he must take
private tutoring in that subject at the Mozambique Institute.
In some cases a student may take tutoring in three out of four
subjects that he, or she, is studying.  Some investigation is