UN, NGOs accused of bungling effort to educate Rohingya children

Under UN guidelines, refugee children are supposed to be taught either the curriculum of their host country or that of their homeland. In the Rohingya's case, the Myanmar government refused to allow its curriculum to be used and in October 2017, two months after a brutal military crackdown had driven hundreds of thousands of majority-Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar into Bangladesh, officials in Dhaka banned the use of its curriculum for the newly-arrived refugee children.

Interviews by Al Jazeera suggest that for 18 months until May this year, there was limited effort to convince the Myanmar government to allow the use of its curriculum to educate the refugee children, now thought to number about 461,000.