The unprecedented number of forcibly displaced people poses a serious challenge to quality education and learning across the world. Join AIR on Thursday, October 20, 2022, from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. ET to learn more about teachers’ critical role in ensuring inclusive and quality education during forced displacement. ...
The Syrian crisis has disrupted the education of Syrian youth and confounded the education systems in countries receiving them. In this 90-second video interview, Amy West, principal project specialist at AIR, explains why education is so critical for Syrian refugee youth.
While debates about cross-border migration remain a contentious topic of debate in developed countries, there is growing concern about increasing rates of internal migration driven by climate change. This study examines the effects of internal migration driven by severe natural disasters on students in host communities, and the mechanisms behind ...
AIR has worked with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) to create an Apprenticeship Career Pathways Framework and related resources to provide important support to expand Registered Apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, and other work-based learning models as central strategies in the state’s education and workforce development efforts. ...
World University Service of Canada (WUSC)’s Kenya Equity in Education Project (KEEP) aims to create a conducive learning environment that supports over 20,000 girls from Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps and surrounding communities for whom conflict, displacement and poverty have made access and continuation of education challenging. WUSC together with ...
The authors of this UNICEF Think Piece explain why focusing on quality and equitable access to pre-primary education is imperative in Eastern and Southern Africa and why it unfortunately does not happen, and explore the implication of the increased focus on access on the provision of quality pre-primary education. ...
AIR is partnering with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to provide technical assistance through the Competency Model Clearinghouse.
Most Syrian refugees in Lebanon have arrived with limited savings and have struggled to earn steady incomes to meet their families’ basic needs, such as food, health care, and shelter. This sudden influx has created an education crisis in Lebanon that affects Syrian and vulnerable Lebanese children. The Min Ila ...
In a webinar on February 28, 2023, AIR presented new data across case studies, including the key institutional, political, financial, and sociocultural factors affecting the inclusion of displaced children into national education systems.