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Refugee education crisis
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“I Want to Continue to Study”: Barriers to secondary education for Syrian refugee children in Jordan
As the conflict in Syria enters its 10th year, the education crisis for Syrian refugee children in Jordan who now are progressing into secondary education has become more acute. Many children are unable to access education because of poverty, lack of affo
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Time to Act: Providing refugee children the education they were promised
In times of crisis, education can play a life-saving and life-sustaining role. But most children caught up in crisis are denied an education. More than half of the world’s refugee children – 3.7 million – don’t go to school. Having already lost their home
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Hear it From the Teachers: Getting refugee children back to learning
Four million refugee children around the world are out of school – missing out on their right to an education due to displacement, poverty and exclusion. There may be no classroom, no books, no blackboard, or no chalk – but if there is a good teacher, chi
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Promising Practices in Refugee Education: Synthesis report
Promising Practices in Refugee Education is a joint initiative of Save the Children, the world’s largest independent children’s rights organisation, UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, and Pearson, the world’s learning company. Launched in March 2017, the initi
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Losing Out on Learning: Providing refugee children the education they were promised
Over half of the world’s registered refugees of school age, approximately 3.5 million children, are not in school. Refugee children are five times less likely to attend school compared to other children. Even for those who can access education, the qualit
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Restoring Hope, Rebuilding Futures: A plan of action for delivering universal education for South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
South Sudan’s refugee children in Uganda face an education emergency. Uprooted from their homes by famine and violence, over half-a-million have fled across the border into northern Uganda – one of the poorest parts of one of the world’s poorest countries
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Funding, Policy and Protection: Delivering a quality education to children affected by conflict in Syria and the region
6 million children affected by the war in Syria are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. 1.4 million of these children are of school age and are living as refugees in neighbouring countries and more than half of them lack access to education. As Hea
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Futures Under Threat: The impact of the education crisis on Syria's children
Futures under Threat shines a light on the scale and extent of the education crisis for children inside Syria and for those living as refugees in neighbouring countries. Before the war almost all of Syria’s children were enrolled in school. Literacy rates