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Refugee Student Summit

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  • Refugee Student Summit Collins Building, Strathclyde University, Glasgow Thursday 09-03-2017 - 10:30 until Thursday 09-03-2017 - 14:45

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Refugee Student Summit

Education is a transformative experience, and our ambitions for ensuring it remains open to the most vulnerable must include a focus on refugees and asylum seekers – potential students relying on education as a means to transform their lives. 

Responsibility for educating refugees, asylum-seekers & their children, and ensuring the provision and chance to access those opportunities falls between numerous different authorities in the UK – with the result being that thousands of children seeking asylum in the UK fall through gaps in the system and are denied access to education.

Here in Scotland, the situation is improving, but there has never been a more important time to come together to ensure that as students, educators, and senior leaders in the sector that do all we can to open up education to refugees and send an open, welcoming and inclusive message to those coming to Scotland in the pursuit of a better life.

The Refugee Student Summit is being hosted by NUS Scotland and the University of Strathclyde Students’ Association and will bring together stakeholders from across the education sector, and organisations working with Refugees and Asylum, to share best practice and formulate solutions to improve education for refugees and asylum seekers here in Scotland. Over the course of the event, you’ll have the opportunity to hear from keynote speakers – both those affected by the issues being discussed, and those working to resolve them – and participate in workshops and discussions around the barriers to education that exist from refugees, and how we break them down.

Registration for the event has now closed. If you need to change your registration for any reason please contact events@nus-scotland.org.uk.

 

Venue/Timing

Venue : Collins Building, Strathclyde University, Glasgow

Type: Debate

Start Date: Thursday 09-03-2017 - 10:30

End date: Thursday 09-03-2017 - 14:45

Capacity: 100

Contact Details

events@nus-scotland.org.uk