"An Education for Future: The Schooling Experience of Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon and Germany" is a comparative study conducted by the Centre for Lebanse Studies. The study examines the future prospects of Syrian refugee children who dropped-out of Lebanese public schools and the German schools. The study compared Germany’s and Lebanon education provisions for inclusion of Syrian refugee children in public schools, as well as dropout rates of Syrian refugees. This comparison sought to highlight examples of best practices from Lebanon and Germany to reduce the dropout rates, to...
As the Syrian crisis enters the fourth year, there is a timely need to reflect on the wider implications on Lebanon. The influx of over a million and half Syrian refugees brought a total of 400,000 school age refugees to Lebanon. This dramatic demographic shift posed a formidable challenge to an education system suited to deliver education to a national student population of just over 900,000. To date, the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) which only host 30% of the student population in Lebanon shouldered the burden of education service delivery with support from...
Widening Access to Quality Education for Syrian Refugees: The role of private and
NGO Sectors in Lebanon
Authors
Maha Shuayb, Nisrine Makkouk and Suha Tuttunji
September 2014
