The 2022 UNHCR Refugee Education Report draws on data from more than 40 countries across the world, enabling UNHCR to paint the clearest picture yet of the state of refugee education – and illustrate how refugee children and youth are falling behind their non-refugee peers when it comes to access to an inclusive quality education.
Check out the education webpage on the UNCHR website for more information and publications on refugee education.
With school closures, education in emergencies responses are shifting to home or shelter-based distance learning (including paper-based and technology-based options). As with in-person education, distance learning is not always designed with the specific educational needs of individual children in mind.
Programmes that use only one delivery mechanism or expect rigid inputs and functional abilities from students exclude children with disabilities and those already at risk of falling behind further. Addressing these challenges is crucial.
Building inclusion into any education programme requires ensuring that there are multiple ways to share information, motivate learners, and allow children to express themselves.
Take a look at the Inclusive Distance Learning guide by Save the Children which provides information on how to support the designing of inclusive distance learning sessions.
Date: Thursday 08 December 2022.
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Higher education institutions in Ukraine have been under attack by Russian troops since 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea and invaded Donbas, but escalation of the war in 2022 exacerbated damage to universities. From 386 institutions, at least 147 colleges and universities were destroyed or damaged as a result of Russian attacks. 43 universities displaced from occupied territories.
Join a discussion with Ukrainian scholars studying and experiencing the impact of the Russian invasion on higher education in Ukraine.
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Child marriage limits girls’ access to quality education. When a girl gets married, she is often expected to drop out of school, ending her formal education. As a wife or mother, she is often expected to take care of the home, children and extended family. Returning to school can be almost impossible for a married girl.
Keeping girls in school is one of the best ways to prevent child marriage. On the Girls not Brides website you will find key facts, impacts, common drivers and solutions on education and child marriage.
This position paper outlines Save the Children’s continued commitment in 2022 to ensuring that all children have equal access to a quality, rights-based inclusive education which emphasizes equity in access and participation, and responds positively to the individual learning needs and competencies of all children.
Take a look on the Child Rights Resource Centre for the position paper and many more materials and resources.
Listen to Kanwal Singh’s insights into inclusive education in India on this podcast. Kanwal is former director of the Vishwas school and author of Hanging On: A Special Educator’s journey into inclusive education.
The podcast reflects on Kanwals career working with students with disabilities in special schools and why her attitude changed toward inclusive practices. Kanwal discusses her experience as the director at Vishwas school and what she’s learned about sustaining inclusive education over the years. And what teachers need to know if they want to keep inclusive education going in their school or district.
First published in 2016 we now find ourselves 6 years into the ‘Survive, thrive and transform global strategy. The joint WHO and UNCIEF ‘Every woman, every child’: Global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescent’s health (2016 – 2030) was launched to build on the new commitments and advocacy of the health-related Millennium Development Goals.
By helping to create an enabling environment for health, the Global Strategy aims to transform societies so that women, children and adolescents everywhere can realize their
rights to the highest attainable standards of health and well-being. This, in turn, will
deliver enormous social, demographic and economic benefits.
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You an also download the 2022 Global Strategy progress report: ‘Protect the promise’ which provides an update on the ‘Every woman, every child’: Global Strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescent’s health (2016 – 2030).
CBM has launched the Inclusive Participation Toolbox, a new digital centre with resources for supporting the meaningful inclusion of persons with disabilities and organisations of persons with disabilities (OPDs).
The toolbox is designed for professionals working in international development. It supports them to develop and implement inclusive programmes, organise consultations, plan events, and prepare presentations. It will help professionals and organisations to work with and for persons with disabilities.
UNESCO Beirut recently published ‘Promoting the Inclusion of Children and Young People with Disabilities in Education in the Arab Region’. The report analyses inclusive education in Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and makes recommendations for future actions. The report focuses on persons with disabilities but recognises that other groups of learners are marginalised within or excluded from educational provision. It highlights progress achieved and still required and urges governments to take action.
The report can now be downloaded in French.
