1/2/2024 0 Comments Coming togetherEnrolment in secondary education rose with tens of thousands of refugee children newly attending school a 2% increase in 2019 alone. At the level of higher education, only 3% of refugee youth are enrolled.įar behind global averages, these statistics nevertheless do represent progress. While there is 77% gross enrolment in primary school, only 31% of youth are enrolled in secondary school. The 2019 data in the report is based on reporting from twelve countries hosting more than half of the world’s refugee children. But if we work as a team, as one, we can give them the chance they deserve to have a dignified future. Unless everyone plays their part, generations of children – millions of them in some of the world’s poorest regions – will face a bleak future. In a powerful Final Word to the report, the Vodafone Foundation and UNHCR Ambassador for the Instant Network Schools Programme, Mohamed Salah, said: “Ensuring quality education today means less poverty and suffering tomorrow. Without greater support, steady, hard-won increases in school, university, and technical and vocational education enrolment could be reversed – in some cases permanently - potentially jeopardizing efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education for all. Despite the enormous challenges posed by the pandemic, with greater international support to refugees and their host communities, we can expand innovative ways to protect the critical gains made in refugee education over the past years.” “After everything they have endured, we cannot rob them of their futures by denying them an education today. “Half of the world’s refugee children were already out of school,” said Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. This is set to worsen – many may not have opportunities to resume their studies due to school closures, difficulties affording fees, uniforms or books, lack of access to technologies or because they are being required to work to support their families. Before the pandemic, a refugee child was twice as likely to be out of school as a non-refugee child. While children in every country have struggled with the impact of COVID-19 on their education, the report finds that refugee children have been particularly disadvantaged. The data in the report is based on the gross enrolment figures from the 2019 school cycle. In a report released today, titled “ Coming Together for Refugee Education,” UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, predicts that unless immediate and bold action is taken by the international community to beat back the catastrophic effects of COVID-19 on refugee education, the potential of millions of young refugees living in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities will be further threatened. UNHCR Report: Coronavirus a dire threat to refugee education – half of the world’s refugee children out of school
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