UN Refugee Chief Touts Focus on Education in New Approach to Lasting Problem

Efforts to provide education for refugees have been transformed by the impact of millions fleeing Syria since 2011, according to Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Speaking ahead of the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York, the commissioner highlighted the gap between education for refugees and settled citizens.

Drawing on figures compiled by the charity Save the Children, Mr Grandi said that while the picture for the world’s displaced had improved in the past decade there was still work to be done to raise enrolment rates to the worldwide average. He added that access was increasing rapidly.