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A double shift system will have to be introduced in some schools so more children can be educated within existing facilities.
Under what is called the double shift system 200,000 Syrian children are being educated every afternoon and evening in the very same classrooms that local Lebanese children occupy in the morning.
In an article in the Washington Post last month, Brown spoke of how he is promoting the "double shift" system in Lebanon, in which Lebanese children are taught in the morning and Syrian refugee children are taught in the afternoon.
At both, she said, the principles told her to wait until a double shift system could be put in place, with one set of students attending in the morning and another, mostly Syrian, in the afternoon.
In Turkey, more than 278,000 Syrian children are in Turkish schools and although Hammond welcomed Gordon Brown's plan for a double shift system in schools to generate extra places for refugee children, he said the plan required many more teachers.
They've got over 250,000 Syrian children in school in Lebanon with the double shift system.
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In Lebanon, which has absorbed almost 400,000 Syrian children into its towns and villages, the government has committed to run its schools on a "double-shift" system: local children for one half of the day, Syrian children for the other.
Last September, the new school term saw 200,000 Syrian refugee children return to school as a result of the double-shift system.
I visited the Mtein Public Primary School in Lebanon, where tireless director Mrs Najah Banna told me about the challenges of operating the double-shift system.
As the reports outline, the same double-shift system is being used in Jordan and Turkey, with the support of the governments, and could be scaled up.
The reports outline the growing number of child refugees and how the numbers of these refugee children educated could multiply principally through introducing a double-shift system in these countries' schools.
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