Refugee children in Greece have long lacked access to public education, and the coronavirus pandemic has made things even worse, according to a letter published by 33 organizations. They are demanding immediate action from Greek und EU authorities.
The Powercoders academy trains refugees in computer programming so they can find a job. News classes are starting in Milan, Italy, next month. The online course is open to 20 students.
The enrollment of incoming first-year students in Italy for the 2021-2022 school year will close on January 25. Enrollment is also mandatory for foreign minors, regardless of the regularity of their parents' stay permit, according to regulations issued by the education ministry.
The European Commission has announced a new plan to help countries better integrate migrants. The plan is aimed at fostering migrants' sense of belonging and fighting an 'us and them' narrative.
Two refugees who enrolled as students at the University of Florence through a project by the UN refugee agency UNHCR called "University Corridors for Refugees" (UNICORE) will be will provided with scholarships.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) denounced in a statement that COVID-19 and conflicts in the Central Sahel region of Africa have forced over 12 million children there to leave school.
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR has urged more support for refugees accessing higher education in order to withstand the impact of COVID-19.
Twenty refugees from Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in Italy on September 11 thanks to the project University Corridors for Refugees. They will be able to continue their studies at 10 Italian universities through a scholarship.
COVID-19 presents a serious risk to refugee education worldwide, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR. It warns that the virus threatens to cause a ‘pandemic of poverty’, which could reverse hard-won progress made in refugee school enrolment.
Four years ago, Amadou Diallo arrived in Greece as a 16-year-old unaccompanied child from Guinea. Since arriving he has fought hard for his education and the right to asylum. Finally, at the end of July, after several failed attempts he was granted not only the right to asylum in Greece but with it, the path to take up a university scholarship in Paris.
Omar Nahhas, 19, topped the dentistry field in France’s highly competitive first year of common medical studies, or PACES, in June. In an interview with a regional daily in Lorrain, in eastern France, the young Syrian refugee expressed his gratitude to all the people who helped him along the way.
Some 100 scholarships are once again this year being made available by Italy for those who have been granted international protection and who had to abandon their studies when forced to leave their countries. The initiative is by the interior ministry and the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI).