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22 SES 14 B, Migrants, Refugees and Global Challenges in Higher Education
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This presentation will discuss how HE institutions in the Arab World deals with the challenges of the Syrian refugee’s students access to HE, especially in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan. There are numbers of researches which deals with the refugee students from Syria in different universities in the world (Ergin, 2016; Fricke, 2016; Avery & Said, 2017; Yavcan & El-Ghali, 2017) but little researches in Arab universities in the Arab world (Watenpaugh et al., 2013Al-Hawamdeh & El-Ghali, 2017). It aims to indicate main approaches, models and trends of dealing with these challenges in Jordanian universities in the last years, and to examine the main hindrances of access to HE in Jordan as a case study which reflects the situation in other Arab World facing Syrian refugee students. The presentation is based on a meta-analysis of published papers and other official documents, and on analysis of relevant research studies. Jordan is hosting a large of Syrian refugee population. In 2016 the number of Syrian refugees reached about 656,400. The majority of the Jordanian support is in the field of education which has targeted the age group 6-18, but the age group 18-25 has mostly been excluded “the lost generation”. Compared with challenges faced by refugee students in HE systems in Western world (language competency, adjustment to cultural norms and values, and identification) this presentation will deal with the Syrian students who faced with various challenges, since they living and studying in Arab Jordanian universities, along with cultural and historical ties and language similarities and with an open border, but most likely challenges due to Jordan’s financial difficulties. The government’s attempts to revise clear and effective policies to accommodate for the influx of Syrian refugee students to the HE sector are limited. Policy favouring re-examination of equitable access of refugees students to HE institutions in Jordan are discussed, especially for improving access and success of both genders in their studies and integration.
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Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
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Network 8. Research on Health Education
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Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
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Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
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Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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