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Tag Archives: refugees
How can we stop language barriers holding back learning for people on the move?
One in five students have a migrant background in OECD countries, resulting in multi-lingual / multi-cultural classrooms. Yet only half of immigrants receive language support in OECD countries on average. Arriving in a new country and suddenly sitting in a … Continue reading
Posted in Inclusion, Literacy, refugees, Uncategorized
Tagged Inclusion, language, literacy, mother-tongue, refugees, target 4.6
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Our joint pledge to increase financing and coordination and improve education for refugees
Jointly authored by Yasmine Sherif, Director Education Cannot Wait, Alice Albright, CEO of the Global Partnership for Education and Keiko Miwa, Regional Director for Human Development of the World Bank The first Global Refugee Forum, which kicks off in Geneva … Continue reading
Benefits and challenges of refugee inclusion: Lessons from Lebanon
By Elizabeth Adelman, Vidur Chopra, and Sarah Dryden-Peterson, equal co-authors of a background paper for the Arab States 2019 GEM Report on double-shift schools in Lebanon At 1.30 pm on a balmy October afternoon in Beirut, 12-year old Nour and … Continue reading
Cities need to pull their weight in using education to help migrants and refugees feel included
Today the GEM Report released its 40th policy paper ahead of the UNHCR Global Refugee Forum next month to mark the one-year anniversary of the Global Compact on Refugees. The paper highlights the increasingly important role of cities using education … Continue reading
Leveraging technology to tackle the migrant education crisis in the Arab States
By Nafez Dakkak, Executive Chairman of Edraak at the Queen Rania Foundation Samia was 10 when she left her home for the first time and became a refugee. She was just about to enter 5th grade. Forcefully displaced from her … Continue reading
Fixing the Past: Conflict, Displacement and Education in Iraq
By Alison Oswald, author of a background paper on Iraq for the Arab States 2019 GEM Report on migration, displacement and education Last month four thousand children went to register for the new school year in Hamam al Alil Camp … Continue reading
Countries must urgently protect the right to education of migrants and refugees in the Arab States
The first regional edition of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report published by UNESCO was launched this morning at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). The Arab States Migration, displacement and education: Building bridges, not walls Report analyses the … Continue reading
“Some refugees in my class have physical pain which doctors cannot heal” says Jenny, a teacher in a Welcome Class in Germany
I consider myself a migrant. I have lived abroad for 29 years. I now teach in “welcome classes” in Germany, which are set up to teach newly arrived students. At my school we have two welcome classes of 12 students … Continue reading
Posted in immigrant, immigration, migrant, migration, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized
Tagged immigrants, migrants, migration, refugee, refugee education, refugees, trauma
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New paper: Teachers need support to better help migrant and refugee students suffering from trauma
The number of migrant and refugee school-age children around the world has grown by 26% since 2000. Eight years on from the beginning of the Syrian conflict, a new paper released today and at an event in the Netherlands looks … Continue reading
Teachers multitask in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps for Rohingya refugees
This content comes from our newly released interactive youth version of the 2019 GEM Report. Anowar is a Rohingya refugee who has been living in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh for over a year. He is a learning instructor in the … Continue reading
