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GENEVA, September 12th 2017: More than 3.5 million refugee children aged 5 to 17 did not have the chance to attend school in the last academic year, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says in a report released today.<\/span>These include some 1.5 million refugee children missing out on primary school, the report found, while 2 million refugee adolescents are not in secondary school.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0\u201cOf the 17.2 million refugees under UNHCR\u2019s mandate, half are children,\u201d said Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. \u201cThe education of these young people is crucial to the peaceful and sustainable development of the countries that have welcomed them, and to their homes when they are able to return. Yet compared to other children and adolescents around the world, the gap in opportunity for refugees is growing ever wider.\u201d<\/h3>\n

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Deputy headteacher Patric Abale teaches a class at Yangani Progressive Primary School in Yumbe District, northern Uganda. Abale says the school has over 5,000 registered pupils, including many who escaped the conflict in neighbouring South Sudan. ; Deputy headteacher, Patric Abale, told UNHCR that his teaching staff are struggling to cope with class sizes at the UNHCR-supported Yangani school, located in Bidibidi settlement on the Uganda-South Sudan border. Uganda\u2019s progressive approach to refugee integration means South Sudanese children have full access to the education system, while their parents have the right to work and are often given plots of land to build houses. At a summit in the capital Kampala on 22 and 23 June 2017, the UN High Commissioner For Refugees Filippo Grandi recognised the Ugandan Government\u2019s generosity in hosting nearly 1.3 million refugees and urged international support so that the country can continue providing education, healthcare and livelihoods to those fleeing violence. Of the 1.87 million who have fled South Sudan since the conflict reignited in July 2016, more than 800,000 are living in Uganda. A further 1.9 million South Sudanese are internally displaced.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The report, \u201cLeft Behind: Refugee Education in Crisis\u201d, compares UNHCR sources and statistics on refugee education with data from UNESCO, the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization, on school enrolment around the world. Globally, 91 per cent of children attend primary school. For refugees, that figure is far lower at only 61 per cent \u2013 and in low-income countries it is less than 50 per cent.<\/span><\/div>\n

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As refugee children get older, the obstacles increase: only 23 per cent of refugee adolescents are enrolled in secondary school, compared to 84 per cent globally. In low-income countries a mere 9 per cent of refugees are able to go to secondary school. <\/span><\/div>\n
For tertiary education the situation is critical. Across the world, enrolment in tertiary education stands at 36 per cent. For refugees, despite big improvements in overall numbers thanks to investment in scholarships and other programmes, the percentage remains stuck at 1 per cent.<\/span><\/div>\n
The international community will fail to attain its Sustainable Development Goals \u2013 17 goals aimed at transforming the world by 2030 \u2013 if it does not act to reverse these trends. Goal four, \u201cEnsure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning\u201d, will not be realized without meeting the educational needs of vulnerable populations, including refugees and other forcibly displaced people. And many other development goals targeting health, prosperity, equality and peace will be undermined if education is neglected.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Niger \/ Nigerian refugees \/ Six-year-old Sala does her math exercises in a classroom in Bosso, Niger. Thirty Nigerian refugee children are attending classes in the school in addition to 300 Niger children.\/ UNHCR \/ H. Caux \/ January 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0The report calls for education to be considered fundamental to the response to refugee emergencies, and for it to be supported by long-term planning and reliable funding. It urges governments to include refugees in their national education systems as the most effective, equitable and sustainable response, and highlights some of the notable efforts made towards implementing such a policy \u2013 even in countries where resources are already stretched.<\/h3>\n

\u00a0The findings further underline the importance of quality teaching, and of the national and international support networks needed to keep teachers trained, motivated and able to make a positive impact in the world\u2019s toughest classrooms. Numerous personal stories featured in the report demonstrate that while refugees are desperate to get an education \u2013 well aware of the transformative effect it can have on their lives \u2013 there are far too few teachers, classrooms, text books and support mechanisms to meet such enormous demand.<\/h3>\n

\u00a0This is the second annual education report from UNHCR. The first, \u201cMissing Out\u201d, was released in advance of the UN General Assembly\u2019s Summit for Refugees and Migrants last September. The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, signed by 193 countries, put education at the forefront of the international response.<\/h3>\n

\u00a0\u201cDespite the overwhelming support for the New York Declaration, one year on, refugees are in real danger of being left behind in terms of their education,\u201d said Grandi. \u201cEnsuring that refugees have equitable access to quality education is a shared responsibility. It is time for all of us to put words into action.\u201d<\/h3>\n

\u00a0UNHCR\u2019s report has found that the enrolment of primary-aged refugee children has risen over the past academic year, from 50 per cent to 61 per cent, thanks largely to improved policies and investment in education for Syrian refugees, as well as the arrival of refugee children in Europe, where education is compulsory. During the same time period, access to secondary education remained stagnant, with less than one in four refugee adolescents enrolling in school.<\/h3>\n
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Sudanese refugee, Hosna Idris, 37, does her homework with her sons Awad and Saleh, both born in exile in Chad. ; The life of Hosna Idris Abdallah, 37, has been marred by violence, hunger and poverty, but she has never lost her desire to learn. When war broke out in Darfur, gunmen raided her village and killed five family members, including her husband. Hosna gathered her children and left home. After arriving in Chad in 2003, she remarried and had two more children, but the marriage ended in divorce. The family now lives in a refugee camp near the Chadian town of Goz Beida, where her focus is on educating her children and herself, while balancing the financial responsibilities of a single mother. Always the oldest in the classroom, Hosna started in kindergarten with her youngest children. It took several attempts to pass her first exams and a long time to get to the end of primary school, but she eventually made it into secondary school, which she now attends with her daughter, Khadija, 15.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0Considerable barriers remain, principally because almost one in three refugees live in low-income countries. They are the least likely to go to school \u2013 six times less likely than children globally. The countries hosting them, often already struggling to find the means to educate their own children, face the additional task of finding school places, properly trained and qualified teachers, and adequate learning materials for tens or even hundreds of thousands of newcomers who often do not speak the language of instruction and have frequently missed out on around four years of schooling.<\/h3>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe progress seen in the enrolment of Syrian refugee children shows clearly the potential to turn around this crisis in education for refugee children,\u201d said Grandi. \u201cBut the abysmal level of school enrolment for refugee children living in low-income regions clearly points to a need to invest in these often forgotten host countries.\u201d<\/h3>\n

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Media contacts and materials:<\/span><\/div>\n
The multimedia version of the report can be found at http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/left-behind<\/span><\/div>\n
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For more information on this topic \u2013 including media contacts, a PDF version, and related photos, video, infographics and motion graphics \u2013 please visit http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/left-behind-media<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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