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Under this program, each refugee family is temporarily housed on campus grounds until they can resettle successfully in Greensboro. [5] [19] They are provided with free housing, utilities, Wi-Fi, use of college facilities and resources, and a large community of support in the form of the college campus and its friends.
Newcomer education is a need with international implications. The Refugee Convention of the UNHCR in 1951 listed public education as one of the fundamental rights of refugees, stating that “elementary education satisfies an urgent need [and] schools are the most rapid and effective instrument of assimilation.”
Sarah Dryden-Peterson is a researcher on refugee education and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she founded and leads Refugee REACH, an initiative focused on research, education, and action for refugees around the world.
The 41-year-old actress and director gave a lecture to students at the the London School of Economics' Centre for Women, Peace and Security on Tuesday
Former US Secretary of State and diplomat Madeleine Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959 and has remained an active alumna and supporter of the college throughout her career. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 7 ] The idea for the Albright Institute originated during discussions between Albright and Wellesley College over the donation of working papers ...
A college education also increases youth marriageability increasing the chances for youth to marry a legal citizen and obtain legal status through familial relationship. [18] The majority of undocumented children are growing up with legal access to public education but face legal barriers to higher education (Abrogate, 2006).
New Secretary Of State Marco Rubio Pauses Refugee Operations, Ramps Up Visa Vetting ... "I think that discussion is always predicated on what we can get done, and we're obviously all interested in ...
The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was established in 1982, as part of the University of Oxford's Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), [1] in order to promote the understanding of the causes and consequences of forced migration and to improve the lives of some of the world's most marginalised people.