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The average annual cost of educating refugees is less than 5 percent of public education expenditure in developing nations hosting 85 percent of the world s refugees, according to a joint World Bank - UNHCR report The Global Cost for Inclusive Refugee Education released on February 24, 2021. The principle of inclusive education, in this case, opening education up to all refugee children and their inclusion into national education systems can also lead to better services for local communities in host countries. This can be achieved at an estimated annual cost of US$4.85 billion globally. This is a pre-COVID estimated cost of educating all refugees and is likely to increase as the impacts of the pandemic continue to unfold. ....
DER SPIEGEL Suche öffnen Generation Lockdown Schoolchildren Around the World Face a Steep Uphill Battle Hundreds of millions of children around the world have been unable to attend school for months because of the pandemic. More than 24 million may never return. The future of an entire generation is at stake. Bild vergrößern Children in a Kenyan slum: Around the world, school closures are dimming the future prospects of today s students. Foto: Brian Otieno / GGImages / DER SPIEGEL When the twins Esther and Deborah Pereira still hadn t heard anything from their school by early February, despite months of waiting, they turned to books to satisfy their longing. Their father scraped together his savings to buy them: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. ....
The coronavirus crisis has worsened education inequality between rich and poor in Bangladesh as a huge number of students from poor families are not able to access the distance learning adopted by the government, according to a World Bank working paper. Only 9.2 percent of children aged between five and 15 years in the poorest households have access to televisions, one of the four remote learning mediums, as opposed to 91 percent of school-going children from the richest households, it said. Some 59.7 percent of children belonging to the middle-income households have access to tele-broadcasting, said the paper that assessed the impact of school closures on student learning in Bangladesh. ....
Donor funding rules limit basic research opportunities Africa’s total research output is merely 1% of the world’s scientific research production and there are no indicators that the situation will improve in the near future, simply because there is insufficient funding for science on the continent, according to Elizabeth Marincola, a senior adviser for communications at the Nairobi-based African Academy of Sciences (AAS). The issue is that, whereas all the 54 countries in the continent committed themselves to spending 1% of their gross domestic product to fund research and development by 2010, none has achieved that goal since the decision was endorsed by the African Union’s Executive Council in 2007. ....