Hope and opportunity for refugee students in Botswana
As universities begin to offer scholarships, refugee students look forward to a more secure future in the country they now call home. By Kate Pond in Gaborone, Botswana Under the shade of nodding acacia trees outside the University of Botswana’s School of Medicine,...
Stronger international support urgently needed to improve access to higher education for young refugees
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is launching today a new campaign called Aiming Higher seeking to enable talented refugees to get into higher education by funding their scholarships for university and technical skills training. The fundraising campaign aims to address...
Education for all refugee children is within reach – finds World Bank-UNHCR report
GENEVA/WASHINGTON – The average annual cost of educating refugees is less than 5 percent of public education expenditure in developing nations hosting 85 percent of the world’s refugees, according to a joint World Bank – UNHCR report released today. The principle of...