SUMMARY

• A student who is well-integrated into the education system both academically and socially has more chance of reaching their potential but a migrant student face various challenges;
• Migrant students are lagging behind their native-born peers in most European education systems;
• Primary school students who do not speak the language of instruction at home report a lower sense of belonging and experience more bullying at school;
• In most countries, the proportion of immigrants under 15 years old is below 10%;
• Migrant children and young people of compulsory school age have the same education rights and obligations as their native-born peers in most European education systems;
• Students over compulsory school age who lack resident status have no right to access education in 13 education systems;
• An initial assessment of newly arrived migrant students is not widely carried out and is rarely comprehensive in Europe;
• Newly arrived migrant students are usually placed in preparatory classes or lessons if their language skills are not strong enough to follow mainstream teaching;
• The 'number of migrant students needing language support' is often used as a criterion for allocating funding;
• It is very rarely a right for migrant students to study their home language at school;
• Home language teachers either come from abroad or are born and educated in the country where they teach;
• Intercultural education can be an education principle, a cross-curricular theme or taught through specific curriculum subjects.