Brussels, 28/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - Eurydice, the information network on education in Europe, has published an updated version of its 2004 report on the education of immigrant children. The request to do so came from the European Commission, both to provide follow-up to the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 and in preparation for the Green Paper on the relationship between education and migration. The new version of the report, Integrating Immigrant Children into Schools in Europe, is more focused on developments in communication between schools and the families of immigrant children, and on the teaching of the immigrant children's mother tongue. Description of the policies currently in place with regard to these two issues will inform discussion on the Green Paper, in particular on the growing diversity of different mother tongues in schools and building relations with the families of immigrant pupils, Eurydice says. In terms of communication between schools and parents, most have put various support measures in place to help families enrol their children in school and to be able to follow their progress. Half publish information on their school systems in a foreign language. Finland and Sweden are the only two to officially recognise immigrant parents' right to ask for the use of an interpreter when speaking to school staff, but several others recommend this measure. A few Nordic countries, and also Estonia, Cyprus and Latvia, offer education in two languages, with lessons being given in both the pupils' native language and the school language of instruction. Measures for teaching immigrant pupils their own tongues exist in many European countries. More generally, almost all curricula develop an intercultural approach to help young immigrant pupils integrate and to foster dialogue between cultures. In most countries, the intercultural dimension of teaching is built into initial teacher training courses, and indeed into in-service training, in order to enable teachers to react to stereotyping. The report is available at: http: //http://www.eurydice.org (I.L./transl.rt)