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Classroom activity. Photo (c) Hayssam Moussawi.
Date
21 July 2016 - 12:00

Can learning languages help refugees cope?

Marie Delaney, co-author of the British Council report 'Language for Resilience', explains how language learning has helped refugees cope with their situations.

Tags
English language, Educational research
Mohammed, a nurse working in Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Image (c) DFID, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the oiriginal.
Date
22 April 2016 - 13:32

Can higher education help fix the refugee crisis?

How can universities help students and academics fleeing violence in Syria and elsewhere? The British Council's Dr John Law answers.

Tags
Universities and higher education
Syrian journalist and blogger Mahmoud Hassino, photographed by his partner. Image (c) Mahmoud Hassino
Date
21 March 2016 - 09:44

What's it like to be a gay refugee?

We asked Mahmoud Hassino, a Syrian journalist and gay blogger who works at a refugee shelter in Berlin, what it's like to be a gay refugee.

Tags
Film, Arts
'War and displacement have a far-reaching impact beyond the school gates.' Photo (c) DFID, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the original.
Date
02 February 2016 - 13:51

Refugee children are not getting the education they need

A number of barriers are stopping refugee children in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan getting the education they need. Some steps have already been taken, but there is a lot to be done.

Tags
Education, Schools
'Four million people have fled Syria since 2011'.
Date
30 September 2015 - 10:58

Food, shelter or higher education: what's most needed?

Even senior academics would answer that food and shelter are more important than higher education. The sector should however not be neglected, even – or especially – in times of crisis.

Tags
Universities and higher education
'Syrians feel the world has forgotten about them.' Photo (c) Hassan Abou Nouh, 'Prayer' taken in Homs, Telbiseh, Syria, 2011- 2014.
Date
24 June 2015 - 13:30

What do Syrian refugees think about their country's crisis?

We asked Abed, a Syrian who has been talking to fellow Syrian refugees, what they thought.

Tags
Education, Arts
'We don't have a formal, mainstream media reporting on what's happening.' Artist: Hassan Abou Nouh, Title: Truth
Date
13 February 2015 - 08:39

'Syrians need to dream'

Malu Halasa, writer and editor of Syria Speaks, made this statement at a debate in London this month, about the role of art and citizen journalism in Syria's conflict (includes audio).

Tags
Arts, Visual Arts
Syrian artists are looking to find an answer to the question of what happens next. Photo: Mohamad Khayata, Stitching My Syria Back, 2014
Date
21 January 2015 - 08:03

What are Syrian artists showing us about the conflict?

Lois Stonock co-curated an exhibition by Syrian artists who are showing us the conflict in new ways. Read a transcript of her exhibition tour.

Tags
Arts, Visual Arts, Global development
'Violence and instability have made it difficult for Syrian students to continue their studies.'
Date
17 July 2014 - 16:50

What's happening to Syria's students during the conflict?

When a country is at war, what happens to its universities?

Tags
Universities and higher education
Stewart, a UK teacher with children in a Lebanese school (image courtesy of the author)
Date
17 December 2013 - 15:58

How UK pupils can learn from refugee children in Lebanon

A year since UK teacher Stewart Cook started a partnership with a Lebanese school hosting 40 per cent refugees, he explains how the project has transformed his own pupils.

Tags
Schools

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