The UK is to launch a new visa system designed to make legal immigration easier for highly educated migrants, in particular those working in fields like finance, science, research and technology. The plans were, however, also criticized for being too elitist.
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.
Gospel Ozioma Nnadi is a young refugee who fled Nigeria and passed through Libya before achieving a happy ending with a degree in computer science from the University of Parma.
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.
The number of high-skilled workers who have immigrated to Germany with the EU Blue Card further increased last year. Compared to 2018, close to 15% more non-EU residents arrived in Germany last year.
Amadou Diallo received a scholarship for a prestigious French university. But the Guinean migrant, who arrived in the Greek island of Lesbos four years ago, has been trapped in Greece by an asylum process further delayed by the pandemic. A report in a leading French daily however has rekindled the young migrant’s hopes.
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).
Joy is a young refugee in Italy who was the victim of superstition in Nigeria. The young woman, who now lives in Turin, was kidnapped from her home in Nigeria by men who wanted to sacrifice her because she was born with albinism.
Eleven Italian universities together with the UN refugee agency UNHCR, the foreign ministry and other organizations have joined forces to launch ''university corridors'' to give refugee students from war-torn countries the opportunity of continuing to pursue their studies in Italy, organizers said on June 15.
Almost 10% of Germany's university students are foreign, with most coming from China and India. But are they well integrated? Financial shortfalls and a xenophobic far-right are just some challenges universities face.
What is university life like for refugee students in Italy? At a recent gathering in Rome, several people spoke out about their experiences.
In a new report, the UN refugee agency has highlighted the education crisis among refugee children: Some 3.7 million, or more than half of all refugee minors, don't go to school. Saying a lack of money was the main culprit, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urged the international community to provide more money and build more schools.