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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Activating the recommendations on teachers in crisis contexts
United Nations High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession recommendations
22 May 2024The High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession was convened by the United Nations Secretary General in response to the global teacher shortage. Tasked with providing policy advice for governments to ensure that every child’s right to a professionally-trained, qualified, and well-supported teacher is fulfilled, the Panel identified 59 recommendations.
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Equity and inclusion Pledging Guidance on Teachers and Teaching in Forced Displacement Situations
2023 Global Refugee Forum
3 October 2023In the lead up to the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) 2023, thematic task teams have been established within the GRF Education Alliance which brings together a range of stakeholders working together to operationalise the education-related provisions of the Global Compact on Refugees. Education International leads the GRF Education Alliance Task...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Education of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Context of COVID-19: The Education for Life Project in Uganda and South Sudan
15 March 2021The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated education systems, communities, and economies across Africa and globally. The health crisis has seriously affected the education, health and well-being of refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Uganda, South Sudan and across the continent.
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Equity and inclusion Promoting integration of migrants and refugees in and through education: Toolkit
10 December 2018Education unions are defending the right to learn and to teach of newcomers. They develop advocacy to promote more inclusive schools in the context of increasingly diverse communities and in reaction to the rise of populist anti-immigration political forces. These strategies and practical actions are now compiled in a new...
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Equity and inclusion Education: Hope for newcomers in Europe
Nihad Bunar
28 February 2018The aim of this volume is to bring together experiences from four European countries, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden, on how they have organised the reception of newly-arrived children in their schools, which challenges they face, what are the opportunities, where the support comes from and it has failed to...
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Equity and inclusion The journey of hope: Education for refugee and unaccompanied children in Italy
Sonia Grigt
30 November 2017The Italian legal framework provides a high level of protection for asylum-seeking and unaccompanied minors and a noticeably inclusive approach concerning the integration of these children into the education system. That said, recent developments of the immigration legal framework concerning unaccompanied minors and its impact on the fulfilment of their...
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Equity and inclusion Spain: Hope through diversity
Begoña López Cuesta
29 November 2017Spanish legislation provides for the right of refugees to education and international protection. In practice, however, the absence of a legal framework and institutional infrastructure specifically designed to identify the needs of this target group and provide an appropriate response runs counter to this formal recognition.
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Equity and inclusion Opportunities and hope through education: How German schools include refugees
Dita Vogel, Elina Stock
28 November 2017The Federal Republic of Germany has always been heavily influenced by migration, both of a permanent and temporary nature. Despite high levels of immigration, government policies did not consider Germany a country of immigration until the new residence law that came into force in 2005. Since then, immigration is no...
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Equity and inclusion Newcomers: Hope in a cold climate
Nihad Bunar
31 October 2017The aim of this article is to describe and analyse major patterns of response from Swedish authorities and institutions towards newly arrived, asylum-seeking and refugee children during the last decade.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education Investing in the crisis: Private participation in the education of Syrian refugees
Francine Menashy, Zeena Zakharia
14 April 2017While education in emergencies has risen as a policy priority in the mandates of international organizations (Menashy and Dryden-Peterson, 2015), the share of total overseas development assistance to education has declined sharply in recent years, with funding persistently low in conflict-affected states (UNESCO, 2015; 2016).
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Equity and inclusion Providing education to refugee children from conflict areas in the Middle East - Fast track to equal opportunities and integration
Education International Refugee Education Conference
6 December 2016Quality education is key to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It is crucial in confronting the social, economic, cultural and political challenges that are causing and resulting from the “global refugee crisis." Education is also the most effective tool to help forcibly displaced people integrate into their...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Getting teacher migration and mobility right
Marie-Louise Caravatti, Shannon Lederer, Allison Lupico, Nancy Van Meter
31 May 2014With this study EI aims to identify best practices for international teacher migration, as well as to highlight issues of concern and expose abuses. This research report contributes new data and analysis that will deepen our understanding of the teacher migration phenomenon. It reaffirms our commitment to ensuring that migration...
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Equity and inclusion Education for refugee and asylum seeking children in OECD countries
Paloma Bourgonje
16 March 2010This study examines the educational situation of refugee and asylum-seeking children in four countries: Australia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In all four countries migration has been a subject of political discussion and even controversy in recent decades.