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

1. International Partners Policy Symposium: Lost Youth in the 21st CenturyUniversity of Bath INVISIBLE YOUTH: UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN REFUGEE CAMPS-DREAM OR NOT? Gül İnanç Nanyang Technological University

2. 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."

3. Figures- Facts 38.5 million 17.7 million 10.5 million 80 % 1.6 million 55% 13% 21.300 48% 46% 7.2 million

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.”

8. 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)

9. 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.

10. 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

11. Challenges Reluctance from national governments Relief- versus development Dependency on aid Students will prefer to stay in camps

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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

15. Virtual Spaces to Interact- Face Book Groups 117 BHER Student Group 57 BHER Women Group

16. 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

17. 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.

18. Offering Online Courses/Individual Initiatives University of Geneva-Kenyatta University Anglia Ruskin University-Dundalk Institute of Technology-University of Ulster

19. Part 2- How do we approach from here? UniversidadeEstadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil Stellenbosch University, South Africa Zhejiang University, China Yonsei University, South Korea Ohio State University, USA National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Technologico de Monterry, Mexico Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina

20. 3 options 1- Offering individual/institutional collaboration/support to these ongoing education programmes for refugees

21. 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 LEARN COURSERA MIT OPEN UNIVERSITY

22. Futurelearn/Coursera

23. 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-Diverse 2-Attack a global problem 3-Use Digital Communications Tools 4- Be free of state

24. Creative Dialogue-Streaming Lessons- Virtual ClassroomsTHIRD SPACE

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

26. OUR Responsibility “Education is my mother and my father” Contemporary Sudanese Proverb

27. 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 .