The need for a harmonised approach to refugee education

By Marco Di Donato. Providing a quality education to refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and deprived local communities is considered a fundamental way of empowering them and improving their social inclusion. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has repeatedly discussed the importance and benefits of ensuring the inclusion of refugees in national education systems with particular regard to the Syrian crisis and other refugees and immigration cases, as well as ways to achieve this. More...