Tag Archives: refugee education

Our joint pledge to increase financing and coordination and improve education for refugees

Posted on 16 December 2019 by GEM Report

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 →

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Benefits and challenges of refugee inclusion: Lessons from Lebanon

Posted on 29 November 2019 by GEM Report

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 →

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Cities need to pull their weight in using education to help migrants and refugees feel included

Posted on 26 November 2019 by GEM Report

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 →

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Fixing the Past: Conflict, Displacement and Education in Iraq

Posted on 22 November 2019 by GEM Report

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 →

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“Some refugees in my class have physical pain which doctors cannot heal” says Jenny, a teacher in a Welcome Class in Germany

Posted on 25 June 2019 by GEM Report

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 →

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New paper: Teachers need support to better help migrant and refugee students suffering from trauma

Posted on 20 June 2019 by GEM Report

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 →

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Providing education for migrants and refugees requires common action and shared responsibility

Posted on 7 December 2018 by GEM Report

The global relevance and timeliness of the 2019 GEM Report Migration, displacement and education: Building bridges, not walls was fully evident at this week’s Global Education Meeting in Brussels. This is a key moment in the SDG 4 follow up … Continue reading →

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New 2019 GEM Report shows insufficient progress including migrants and refugees in national education systems

Posted on 20 November 2018 by GEM Report

Launched at events across five continents today, the new Global Education Monitoring Report, Building Bridges, not Walls shows that progress is insufficient in providing an inclusive education for migrants, refugees or other displaced people. Migration and displacement affect education. … Continue reading →

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A teacher remains fiercely committed to her students as UNRWA schools face closure

Posted on 17 October 2018 by GEM Report

Nesrin Ayoub is the head-teacher of an UNRWA-run girls’ primary school of 450 girls aged 6-16 years in Ein Hilweh Refugee Camp, in Lebanon. All the children are all Palestine refugees from Lebanon and Syria. People in the Ein Hilweh … Continue reading →

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Refugee education deserves higher priority in aid – but so do the data on it

Posted on 26 September 2018 by GEM Report

Today at the UNICEF headquarters, as part of events marking the United Nations General Assembly week, a high-level meeting on action for refugee education is being co-led by UNHCR and Save the Children. It is giving prominence to the findings … Continue reading →