text: functioned normally throughout theyear.InJordan, theonlycountry wherea straight comparison canbemadewithGovernment centres, thetwoAgencycentres iagainhadsuccess rateswellabovethenational average. Someofthestudents in thetwoWestBankcentres satforthecomprehensive examination setbythe Jordanian Government in1984.Previously allcommunity college trainees inthe WestBankhadrefused totaketheexamination. Therateofsuccess inthecaseof Agency-trained students washigherthanthatofstudents fromothercentres. In thematteroftraining activities, therewasaverymarked improvement from July1984totheendofJune1985withanalmost unbroken attendance atstudies throughout thatperiod. AttheRamallah Women's Training Centre, ademonstration causedtheAgency tosuspend studies foraweektoavoidathreatened longer closure bytheauthorities. Thecomprehensive examination ceasedtobeasourceof disturbance duringthisperiod.3.Teacher training 61.Theteacher training programme aimsprimarily atproviding qualified teachers forUNRWAschools. TheAgency's training centres acceptPalestine refugee candidates whohavesuccessfully completed 12yearsofgeneral schooling, and prepare themthrough atwo-year professional training p~ogramme toteachat·the elementary schoollevel. Graduates ofthesecentres aregivenpriority forAgency appointments. Iffurther teachers areneeded, theAgency employs university or highschoolgraduates. Usually, thisgrouplacksprofessional qualifications, and theAgencytherefore arranges basicin-service teacher-training courses forthem through theInstitute ofEducation, whichformspartoftheDepartment's Teacher andHigherEducation Division. 62.AttheendofFebruary 1985,enrolment intheInstitute's in-service cour~es was748,ofwhom74wereinthebasictwo-year courseforunqualified elementary teachers, 89inspecialized courses forunqualified preparatory teachers, 95in courses designed tomeetcurricular changes, 96incourses forkeyeducational personnel, and394inrefresher andadhoccourses. InOctober 1984,some 41trainees graduated fromthebasictwo-year courseand59trainees fromthe specialized two-year preparatory courses, and101trainees fromtheprofessional one-year courseforholders ofuniver6ity degrees invarious subject specializations. These201graduates wererecognized byUNRWAaspr,ofessionally qualified teachers andweregradedaccordingly. 63.Pre-service teacher training continued tobeprovided atthreeAgencycentres, oneinAmmanandtwoinRamallah (WestBank). Enrolment totalled 1,166(528men and638women). AswithothercoursesattheAgency's training centres, thelevel ofteacher-training isconstantly reviewed tokeepitinlinewithmarketneeds. Inrecenttimes,ithasbecomeevident thatfewerteachers wereneeded andin 1984/85 theintakeattheAmmanTraining Centre wasreduced from275to175.Some further reductions areplanned. Thepolicy, however, isthatthetotalnumberof training placesattheUNRWATraining Centres willremainunchanged sothata reduc'tion inthenumberofplacesforteacher-trainees isaccompanied bya corresponding increase inthenumberofplacesfortechnical andvocational trainees. 64.Operations attheAmmanTraining Centre weresatisfactory. Thesituation in theWestBankcentres showed amarked improvement fromthatoftheprevious year withvirtually nointerruptions. Theacceptance oftheJordanian General Comprehensive Examination bythetrainees deserves someofthecreditforthis smoothoperation. 65.Ofthe283second-year trainees oftheAmmanTraining Centre whosatforthe July1984General Comprehensive Examination, 72percentpassed, aproportion much higher,thantheJordanian national average. Mostofthesecond-year trainees at oneoftheWestBankcentres registered fortheGeneral Comprehensive Examination andthosewhocomplet~d theexamination hadahighersuccess ratethanwasachieved byWestBanktrainees whosatfortheexamination. (Seealsopara.79inrespect oftheWestBankvocational training cerytres.) 66.Attheendofthe1983/84 training year,663teacher trainees (303menand 360women)graduated fromthepre-service teacher-training centres. By 30June1985,Agencyschools employed 48ofthemand280wereknowntohavefound employment outs1de theAgency. Thisrepresents 50percentofthe1983/84 graduates. The ~actthatmostgraduates ofWestBankcentres refused tositfor. -11-0;·.~.11 •..•...•.r .i
analysis: The text appears to focus on the educational activities and achievements of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jordan and the West Bank. It discusses the success rates of students in comprehensive examinations, teacher training programs, and in-service courses. The text also mentions the employment of graduates and the agency's policy to reduce the number of training places for teacher-trainees and increase those for technical and vocational trainees. Given the emphasis on education and training, it is likely that the text is related to the field of education.