Three ways higher education can respond to the Syrian refugee crisis (Allan Goodman, Brookings)

Education for Syrian refugees was preoccupying me as well as many of the 800 attendees from 80 countries at the annual "Going Global" conference of the British Council held from May 3-5 in Cape Town, even though responding to refugee crises has historically not been the responsibility of the higher education sector. Indeed, the last time the world had so many refugees—World War II—most of those displaced were not even enrolled in, or planning attend, a university. The gross enrollment ratio for tertiary education in Europe at that time was probably less than 3 percent. And by 1952, almost all of the displaced person camps in Europe were closed

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