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The United Nations is urging the international community to invest in secondary school education for refugee youth to empower them with skills and knowledge — and give them a better shot at ending a vicious cycle of living in limbo and depending on others. “For many refugees, becoming a teenager is also the moment where the educational journey comes to an end.

Children in the world’s most dangerous countries will be given the chance to go to school for the first time thanks to £90m of UK aid funding, the Prime Minister will announce today. The Prime Minister will also call on G7 countries to dedicate more of their aid budget to education, particularly for girls living in conflict areas.

Britain is to give £90m to help children in conflict zones go to school, Boris Johnson has announced. Announcing the aid boost at the G7 summit in France, the prime minister said it would help an estimated 600,000 children, particularly girls, in some of the world’s most dangerous and unstable countries. He called on other rich-world countries to devote a great

"Of the 233,000 refugee children of school age in Jordan, 83,920 are out of school and are not enrolled in any formal or informal education system, according to UNHCR data released this month. 'Despite improvements made over the last few years, 84,000 refugee school-aged children remain out of school in Jordan,' UNHCR spokesperson Lilly Carlisle told The Jordan Times on Tuesday."

"A study by the U.N. Children’s Fund finds more than half a million Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar are not learning the life skills they need to prepare them for the future or to protect them from present-day abuse and exploitation."

"The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released its annual report on the state of education around the world. The 2019 report focuses for the first time on the theme of migration and displacement and finds that the numbers of migrant and refugee school-age children have grown by 26% since the year 2000."

"In West Java, a group of volunteer refugees established the Refugee Learning Center (RLC) to provide education and empower fellow refugees. According to UNHCR, there are 14,405  refugees in Indonesia, many of whom spend many years in the country without acquiring permanent settlement status.

Armed groups attacked hundreds of schools in the Kasai region of central Democratic Republic of Congo during the 2016-17 conflict, said the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) in a report released today.

"4761 Syrians sat for high school final exams (tawjihi) this year, according to the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Education, Sami al-Salaitah, among which hundreds are expected to have passed and thus become qualified to enroll in universities and community colleges.  Syrian students take the same tawjihi exams as Jordanians, which determine their competitiveness i

Syrians sat for high school final exams (tawjihi) this year, according to the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Education, Sami al-Salaitah, among which hundreds are expected to have passed and thus become qualified to enroll in universities and community colleges.  Syrian students take the same tawjihi exams as Jordanians, which determine their competitiveness in high