EDUCATION

NOVEMBER 2023

• Africa News - Uganda: The literacy specialist getting children to read and write

• Finn Church Aid - From refugee settlement to graduation gown

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response: Education dashboard Quarter 3 2023

• JRS - The journey of Aamira, to help other refugee women and girls determine their own future

• Monitor - Early childhood centres give hope to children in West Nile

• NTV - (video) -

  • Gov’t enhances learning support for refugees

  • Musical instruments donated to Bidibidi refugee settlement in Yumbe

• ResearchGate - (request for access) - Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach

• Sant Egidio - New classes, nutritional support and further projects for the primary school run by Sant'Egidio in the refugee settlement close to Adjumani.

• UNESCO - Understanding trajectories of refugee inclusion in national education systems: policy and data perspectives from Uganda; background paper

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SEPTEMBER 2023

• JRS -

  • Meet Serge, a refugee and pen artist drawing sketches of his future

  • Providing school transport to aid the mobility of students to schools

• Global Refugee Leaders - PASHA workshop in Kampala Empowers Refugees Through Art expressions

• Norwegian University of Life Sciences - Partnership for education in refugee-host contexts: Joint learning towards food security and sustainable development in Uganda

• Monitor - Alim: Why other refugees shouldn’t suffer like me

• Social Inclusion - Bidi Bidi Creativity: The Liminality of Digital Inclusion for Refugees in Ugandan Higher Education

• UNESCO - Let's Talk Learning with Joel Baraka

• University of Edinburgh - Integrating refugee students into Ugandan higher education: Language, othering and everyday enactments of participation

• Windle International Uganda -

  • 19 Girls benefit from University of Kisubi and UNHCR female refugee scholarship

  • 5th Cohort of SRP beneficiaries depart to Canada

• World Congress of Architects - (pay for access) - Redistributing Opportunity: Bidi Bidi Music and Arts Centre, Uganda

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AUGUST 2023

• Education and Conflict Review - Ensuring effective teacher management in refugee settings in the COVID-19 era: A Ugandan case study of policy and practice

• Eduation Development Trust - EDT and IIEP-UNESCO bring ministers together for key knowledge workshop in Ugandan refugee settlement

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Education Dashboard - Quarter 2, January - June 2023

• The Independent - Govt advised to use digital learning programme to address literacy, numeracy skills

• International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies - Processes, products and lessons in translating policies into practice: The case of IGAD teacher training initiative in refugee and host community secondary schools

• New Vision - Friendly school environment key to children's learning

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JULY 2023

• GAAMAC - GAAMAC’s partner implements training for refugees in Northern Uganda

• Nile Post - Poor quality education in refugee camps in Uganda

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JUNE 2023

• Global Partnership - My experience of education as a refugee - After fleeing violence in South Sudan, Seme arrived without his family in Uganda, where he was able to attend school in the Bidibidi refugee settlement. He talks about the many challenges refugee children like him face to pursue their education.

• Monitor - Refugee communities exposed to digital skills

• Research in Comparative & International Education - Integrating refugee students into Ugandan higher education: Language, othering and everyday enactments of participation

• U-Learn - Mobile TVET programming in the Uganda refugee response

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MAY 2023

• Chimp Reports - Uganda launches Shd 1.6 tn education response plan for refugees

• Education cannot wait - Education Cannot Wait Announces US$4.1 Million First Emergency Response Grant in Uganda: Total ECW Funding in Uganda Tops US$76 Million

• FCA - FCA’s LEARN project is improving access to quality education in Uganda

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Education Dashboard - Term 1, 2023

• Malteser International - Environmentally friendly school inaugurated in the Rhino refugee camp in Northern Uganda

• Ministry of Education and Sport - Uganda Skills Development in Refugee and Host Communities (USDRH) Project, P176263 - ENVIRONMENTAL and SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP)

• Social Inclusion - Bidi Bidi Creativity: The Liminality of Digital Inclusion for Refugees in Ugandan Higher Education

• Windle Trust - Accelerated Education Program is Transforming Lives of Refugees and Host Community Learners

 

APRIL 2023

• FCA - Breaking barriers: FCA Uganda ensures access to education for children with disabilities

• Journal of Refugee Studies - Who Can Participate, Where, and How? Connections between Language-in-Education and Social Justice in Policies of Refugee Inclusion

• Save the Children - Endline Assessment for Catch-up Clubs Project in Three Refugee Settlements in Western Uganda

• University of Edinburgh - Bidi bidi creativity: The liminality of digital inclusion for refugees in Ugandan higher education

• UNHCR - UNHCR launches new edition of University Corridors for Refugees - 35 Italian universities will take part in the fifth edition of University for Refugees (UNICORE) -- a scholarship program designed to enable refugee students to continue their higher education in Italy. The selection process is based on both merit and motivation. This year, the UNICORE program made 61 placements available to refugee students from Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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MARCH 2023

• Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Legal Studies - Effectiveness of the Education in Building Self-Reliance Skills among Refugee Students in Uganda

• Education Cannot Wait - Education Cannot Wait Renews Multi-Year Resilience Programme in Uganda with US$25 Million in Catalytic Funding Investment; Calls on Donors to Scale-Up Support

• DEPA - Talking Pictures: Amplifying the voices of refugee women in the urban settlements of Kampala

• GoU/UNHCR - Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2022 - 2023, Education Dashboard - Term 3, 2022

• Malteser Int'l - Environmentally friendly school inaugurated in the Rhino refugee camp in Northern Uganda

• MIT News - Giving refugees design education — and newfound hope

• The Monitor - How South Sudan refugees emerged top in UACE results

• No.1 Citizen - Refugee students decry lack of tuition for further studies

• NTV - (video) - Researchers cite challenges in schooling for refugees

• UNICEF - Including refugee learners so that every child learns (Uganda)

• University of Edinburgh - Foundations for All Toolkit - the project aimed to design and implement a blended bridging programme across two sites in Uganda to support refugee and disadvantaged host community students wishing to study at University.

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FEBRUARY 2023

• Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education - “My teachers make me feel alive”: the contribution of student-teacher relationships to student well-being in accelerated education programmes in South Sudan and Uganda

• FCA - Back to school in Uganda: excitement and enthusiasm at start of new school year

• Forbes.com - Last Mile Learners Reflect Literacy Needs Across The Globe

• International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy - A critical review of the research evidence on early childhood education and care in refugee contexts in low- and middle-income countries

• The Monitor - Language barrier hinders education access for refugees

• Washington University in St Louis - D&I SPOTLIGHT: Student collaborator works to support refugee mental health in Uganda

• UNESCO - Three more Secondary Schools in Uganda receive UNESCO Digital Library Device