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INVISIBLE YOUTH: UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN REFUGEE CAMPS-DREAM OR NOT? GÜL İNANÇ NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY International Partners Policy Symposium: Lost Youth in the 21st Century University of Bath

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International Partners Policy Symposium: Lost Youth in the 21st Century University of Bath. INVISIBLE YOUTH: UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN REFUGEE CAMPS-DREAM OR NOT? G ül İnanç Nanyang Technological University. Part 1- Facts and Figures. The 1951 Refugee Convention - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: International Partners Policy Symposium:  Lost  Youth in the 21st  Century University of Bath

I N V I S I B L E Y O U T H : U N I V E R S I T Y E D U C AT I O N I N R E F U G E E C A M P S - D R E A M O R N O T ?

G Ü L İ N A N Ç

N A N Y A N G T E C H N O L O G I C A L U N I V E R S I T Y

International Partners Policy Symposium: Lost Youth in the 21st Century

University of Bath

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Part 1- Facts and Figures

The 1951 Refugee Convention

"owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country."

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Figures- Facts

38.5 million17.7 million10.5 million80 %1.6 million55%13%21.30048%46%7.2 million

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Protracted Refugee Situation

“Permanent temporariness’ of most refugees is a ‘silent emergency’ that demands analysis and action to publicize the limbo that most refugees face”

Prof. Jennifer Hyndman -Centre for Refugee Studies,York University

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UNRWA

517,255 registered Palestine refugees

Nine camps 82 schools, with

43,309 pupils Damascus Training Centre 23 primary health centres Eight community

rehabilitation centres 16 women's programme

centres

Figures as of 1 January 2014/ Syria

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PRS-Warehousing

By the 2000s, states in the global North that signed the Convention are preventing refugees from landing on their territory at which point they have legal right to apply for refugee status: the externalization of asylum

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Refugee Education- Article 22/ 1951 Convention

“accord to refugees the same treatment as is accorded to nationals with respect to elementary education [and] treatment as favorable as possible … with respect to education other than elementary education.”

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Refugee participation in primary and secondary school (2009) as compared to global participation (2008) expressed in Gross Enrolment Ratios (GER)

Source: Sarah Dryden-Peterson, “Refugee Education: A Global Review” (Geneva: UNHCR, 2011)

Refugee Primary -76 %

Refugee Secondary-36 %

Refugee Tertiary- 1 % (2013)

Global Primary- 90%

Global Secondary-67%

Global Tertiary- 27 % (2013)

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Critical shifts in the conceptualization of humanitarian assistance

EFA-Education for All Movement

The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

conceived at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000.

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Critical Shifts

Local Integration into the country of asylum

One of the priorities of refugee families- demand for education comes mostly after shelter before food

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Challenges

Reluctance from national governments

Relief- versus development

Dependency on aidStudents will prefer

to stay in camps

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Benefits

Provides skills and knowledge needed to increase the effectiveness of durable solutions

Bolstering parental and community support for primary and secondary education system

Participate in planning and policy making regarding their own situation

Creates attachment to the rest of the world Offering hope for future

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Support for Higher Education

DAFI Program- Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative

Programs that provide post secondary opportunities to refugees through combination of scholarships and distance learning.

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BHER – Borderless Higher Education for Refugeeshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23HryI3UCjw

Offer refugees a stimulating academic program, skills for employment in the camps and an asset that they can carry with them, wherever they may resettle

Offer students hope and motivation to complete secondary school

Train teachers to improve quality of primary and secondary education in the camps

Prepare young people for other skilled work in the camps (eg health care, child protection, administrative work), improving the quality of these services

Give refugees the skills and education their home countries will need to rebuild successfully

Build opportunities for displaced peoples’ voices to be heard on the global stage

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Virtual Spaces to Interact- Face Book Groups

117 BHER Student Group 57 BHER Women Group

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JC-HEM

Jesuit Commons-Higher Education at the Margins

Distance education programme for camp refugees in northwest Kenya, launched by a partnership between US universities and the Jesuit Refugee Service

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ACU/Australian Catholic University Refugee Program -Thai Burma

ACU Thai-Burma Program: ACU partners with universities from the US and Canada to provide tertiary education to these intelligent, young refugees. The program offers a course taught through a combination of online and face-to-face lessons.

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Offering Online Courses/Individual Initiatives

University of Geneva-Kenyatta University

Anglia Ruskin University-Dundalk Institute of Technology-University of Ulster

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3 options

1- Offering individual/institutional collaboration/support to these ongoing education programmes for refugees

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Online Education Platforms

2- Creating awareness for existing online educational platforms for them to set new agendas for Refugee Education

MOOCS- Massive Open Online Courses

FUTURE LEARNCOURSERAMITOPEN UNIVERSITY

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Futurelearn/Coursera

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3rd Option: Creating a new Knowledge Network OUR – Open University for Refugees

Creating a new Knowledge Network

Global Solution Networks/New models of peer collaboration and production

4 characteristics: 1-Diverse2-Attack a global problem3-Use Digital Communications Tools4- Be free of state

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Creative Dialogue-Streaming Lessons- Virtual ClassroomsTHIRD SPACE

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Raspberry Pihttp://www.raspberrypi.org/help/what-is-a-raspberry-

pi/

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OUR Responsibility

“Education is my mother and my father”

Contemporary Sudanese Proverb

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Food for Thought for Tomorrow’s Workshop

Convene an informal seminar at short notice so colleagues could not prepare in advance and had no option but to share the early ideas.

To organize a workshop on this specific topic for brainstorming in the near future-

any date between March-September 2015. Interdisciplinary approach – experts on software,

operational systems, finance, curriculum development, officials from UNHCR, academics working on the area of Refugee Studies, potential donors, Scholars who actively contribute to MOOCS .