In the autumn of 1992 54 elementary schools with the special program for refugees from Bosnia and
Herzegovina opened their doors in the Republic of Slovenia. 9.000 refugee children were included in this
programme, classes were taught by 450 teachers, also refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina. These elementary
schools were either in refugee centres, in Slovenian elementary schools (in the afternoon) or other
improvised rooms. Beside the improvisation there were also problems with teachers. Half of them did not
have adequate pedagogical education. Before the war they were employed as economists, engineers, doctors,
officials, students, sometimes even high school students. The paper represents the issue of the schooling of
Bosnian refugee children and corelated archival records.