21 • In the Seychelles, all students are initially taught in Creole (the mother tongue of almost the entire population) for the first six years of education. English is used as a teaching language for a small number of subjects after the third year, and French is introduced from the sixth. • In Canada and Finland, where students who speak a minority language (French or Swedish) are dispersed, public transportation brings students from surrounding areas to a public school that teaches in their language. • In Australia for some Aboriginal languages that are mainly used orally, or where there are no professionally trained teachers or little printed teaching material in a particular language, teaching assistants from the local community and modest translation programmes are used. • In Cambodia, a Highland Children’s Education Project included the recruitment and training of local teachers who speak minority languages in remote communities. 4.2 Private Education What should be done? The establishment and operation of private schools and educational services using minority languages as a medium of instruction should be allowed, recognized and even facilitated. Why it should be done It has been long recognized in international law that because of their vulnerability, linguistic minorities should always be entitled to their own schools where they can be taught in their own language, regardless of the general educational policies of a state.40 This has at times been associated with the right of members belonging to a linguistic minority to use their own language with other members of their community. Linguistic minorities are often pressured, sometimes inadvertently but also at times forcefully, to assimilate or otherwise abandon their own language. To ensure that linguistic minorities are not isolated from the rest of the population, there is also a right to be taught the official language. 40 Minority Schools in Albania, Permanent Court of International Justice, A/B64, Advisory Opinion of 6 April 1935.64.