News For Refugee Children, Reading Helps Heal Trauma Psychologists find that story time can build the strong relationships they need for healthy development.
News Greeks Oppose Free Education for Refugee Children Greece is trying to offer education to young refugees on the Aegean Islands. However, getting children into classes is proving difficult. The already thin resources are being stretched too far, say locals, while refugee parents are wary of Greek schools.
News Few Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon Get Into Secondary Education A report released last month has confirmed what has long been suspected—that the educational pipeline in Jordan and Lebanon has collapsed. In particular, refugee youth are not flowing through secondary schools—to graduation, or up into vocational or higher education.
Resource Language for Resilience: the role of langauge in enhancing the resilience of Syrian refugees and host communities This report aims to identify the key needs of these different groups, current good practice and potential gaps in programming, and consider the ways that the British Council and its partners can further develop language-education programmes to build capacity during times of protracted crisis.
Resource Crossing the Digital Divide: Applying Technology to the Global Refugee Crisis In this report, the authors analyze technology uses, needs, and gaps, as well as opportunities for better using technology to help displaced people and improving the operations of responding agencies. The authors also examine inherent ethical, security, and privacy considerations; explore barriers to the successful deployment of technology; and outline some tools for building a more systematic approach to such deployment.
Resource Inclusion of refugees in national education systems Drawing on original data from a 14 country study and three in-depth country case studies, we identify three models of inclusion in refugee education: shared space, geographically separate space, and temporally separate space.
Resource Inclusion and exclusion within a policy of national integration: refugee education in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp This article explores the impact of global policy shifts toward ‘national integration’ on schooling for refugee youth in Kenya. This study responds to calls for deeper sociological attention to education and global migration, as states expand educational opportunities for refugee populations while negotiating educational rights amongst citizens.
Resource What a waste: Ensure migrants and refugees' qualifications and prior learning are recognized This paper reviews global progress toward the recognition of qualifications and of prior learning at all education levels and identifies examples where countries have made special provisions for migrants and refugees.
Resource Safe Pathways for Refugees: family reunification, study programmes and labor mobility This OECD-UNHCR mapping exercise examines the use of a subset of complementary pathways for admission by refugees to third counties, focusing on non-humanitarian regular entry visas granted for family, study or work purposes in OECD destination countries since 2010.
Resource An overview of ICT for education of refugees and IDPs This study includes a number of case studies selected to present a diversity of different types of technology projects operating to address education needs in IDP and refugee camps. This rapid review drew largely on synthesis studies, evaluative papers and some grey literature.
