Aiming Higher: Prioritizing Higher Education within the Global Movement for Refugee Education

Originally published by Promising Practices in Refugee Education and reprinted with permission.

The global movement for refugee education is gaining momentum. Spurred in part by the Syrian crisis, prominent actors from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown are centering refugee education within the broader movements for universal primary and secondary education and comprehensive emergency response. Almost entirely missing from the conversation, however, is a call and associated actions to support higher education in crisis contexts. Read more.