The following briefing note compendium reflects wide-ranging analysis and insights of the various barriers that refugees and forcibly displaced people experience in accessing, progressing, and completing higher education. At the same time, the briefing notes present considerations that States and other higher education stakeholders should take into account to defend and promote the right to higher education for this equity deserving group.

Experts from the social sciences, humanities, arts, and experimental sciences offer interdisciplinary perspectives to translate critical analysis into concrete action. The collection highlights activists, artists, and educators who have initiated projects in cooperation with and for the benefit of populations affected by migration and displacement.

Estas ferramentas de contextualização partem da metodologia e de reflexões que resultam de pontos do Domínio 3 contextualizado da Nota de Orientação para o Bem-Estar de Professores e Professoras em Contextos de Emergência para ser usado por professoras/es de universidades não estatais no Myanmar.

These contextualization tools consist of a methodology and reflections, as well as the resultant contextualized Domain 3 of the Guidance Note for Teacher Wellbeing in Emergency Settings for use with university instructors in non-state universities in Myanmar.

Ces outils de contextualisation consistent en une méthodologie et des réflexions, ainsi que le domaine 3 contextualisé dans le cadre de la Note d'orientation pour le bien-être du personnel enseignant dans les situations d'urgence, à utiliser avec les instructeurs universitaires des universités non étatiques du Myanmar.

Estas herramientas de contextualización incluyen una metodología y reflexiones, así como el Ámbito 3 contextualizado que resulta de la Nota de orientación para el bienestar docente en entornos de emergencia para su uso con docentes universitarios en universidades no estatales en Myanmar.

تتكوّن الأدوات التي تم مواءمتها للسياق المحلي من منهجية وتأمّلات، بالإضافة إلى المجال 3 الذي تم تكييفه ومواءمته في  الملاحظات الإرشادية  الخاصّة برفاهية المعلّم في حالات الطّوارئ  للاستخدام من قبل أساتذة الجامعات في الجامعات غير الحكومية في ميانمار.

The INEE Community of Practice (CoP) organised a live discussion with Ukrainian scholars studying and experiencing the impact of the Russian invasion on higher education in Ukraine. The panelists highlighted the critical issues faced by the academic communities and institutions in crises and engaged with the audience answering questions on the current state of higher education in Ukraine. 

In her review of Borderless Higher Education for Refugees, edited by Wenona Giles and Lorrie Miller, Spogmai Akseer affirms the contributing authors’ argument for increasing access to college and university education for refugees. Higher education is a tool for navigating and overcoming the systems of inequality and the social, political, and economic barriers refugees face.