UNESCO Consultation
Manos Antoninis, Global Education Monitoring Report: draft outline of report
Ruth Naylor, Education Development Trust: migration and education
Yusuf Sayed, University of Sussex: teachers for refugees
The 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report will focus on the theme of migration, displacement and education. Voluntary and forced population movements have major implications on access, inclusion, equity and quality in education. They are dynamic processes involving individuals of all ages, teachers, workers, schools, governments at all levels, sending and receiving communities, civil society and the international community. They have spatial and temporal dimensions across generations. They take place within and across borders.
Migration and displacement have a reciprocal relationship with education. On the one hand, they directly affect education and training opportunities of populations that move. On the other hand, education systems can respond to help manage the social and economic impact of population flows.
This workshop aims to engage a diverse audience, which is interested in different aspects of the migration/displacement-education nexus, to give their perspective on the key challenges facing education systems dealing with. In particular, for example, how can education systems:
• use migration flows to accelerate progress in access to school?
• prevent any migrants or refugees from left behind and ensure equity?
• improve their quality to ensure they become a vehicle for solidarity and cohesion?
• provide equal opportunities in skills development for youth and adults moving across borders?
• protect the right to education of vulnerable forcibly displaced populations?
Two speakers will motivate the discussion and will pose questions to participants to lead to the identification of the key policy challenges facing countries with high migration flows.
