Getting (Syrian) refugees into education – The European region’s response to global challenges through education

This issue is fully devoted to the presentation of IAU projects and initiatives. Read the papers selected for two dossiers, one on The blurring divide between public and private higher education: where does it lead?, with papers from Pakistan, France, Saudi Arabia and the US and the second on the initiatives developed to assist Refugees wishing to integrate higher education. IAU Horizons, vol.21, no.3.
Getting (Syrian) refugees into education – The European region’s response to global challenges through education
It is now over four years that Syrian higher education is being gradually phased out, through the country’s civil war and recently the armed conflict with Da’esh (the Islamic State), with only an estimated 5 per cent of the age group1 between 18 to 24 presently enrolled in higher education. After a long period of immobilism, the Syrian student refugees’ situation is now widely covered by the media throughout Europe and the world. More in IAU Horizons, vol.21, no.3.