Ideas and Support to Save Higher Education in Syria

 

 

A recent article in University World News co-authored by IIE President Allan Goodman discusses IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund and the recently convened IIE panel, "Syrian Higher Education in Crisis: The Road Forward." Goodman points out that "education is the orphan of any war" and argues that the international community has a "moral imperative" to help protect the Syrian national academy. "By working together to help Syrian students and scholars, we can create an immediate and measurable impact on the peace and prosperity of post-conflict Syria, and avoid a lost generation."

The article includes a recommendation to bring university education to young Syrian men and women in refugee camps and suggests that Syrian scholars participating in IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund teach these courses. A recent New York Times article reports on a promising pilot program with a similar initiative to bring higher education to Kenya’s refugee camps.