Tertiary Education For Long-termRefugees

Workshop on Tertiary Education for Long-term Refugees

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Borderless Higher Education for Refugees

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Tertiary Education For Long-termRefugees
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CBC Metro Morning Podcast: Course for Refugees

Submitted by mmillard on Wed, 2012/02/22 - 12:02

Matt Galloway spoke with Robin Roth, she is a professor of geography at York University, and with Ei Phyu Han, she is a PhD student and a teaching assistant at York. They were speaking about a geography course taught at the university, that is also offered to refugees living on the Thai-Burma border.

The podcast can be found here: http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2012/02/22/course-for-refugees/

Tertiary Education Research Cluster in the News

(Feb. 2 2012) York project offers higher education to refugees

A project that offers students an opportunity to take a course with Burmese refugees who are half a world away in camps on the Thai-Burma border.

http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2012/02/01/york-project-offers-higher-education-to-refugees/

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tertiary education
Tertiary Education For Long-termRefugees

The provision of tertiary/higher education for long-term refugees

Lead: Wenona Giles, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University (wgiles@yorku.ca)

The provision of tertiary/higher education for long-term refugees such that supports the production of the higher-order capacity necessary for promoting peace, security and development in the Global South is emerging as a crucial form of development assistance.

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