Policy Insights #2 - Refugee Teachers: the Heart of the Global Refugee Response (NORRAG 2023)
"Refugee teachers and teachers of refugees play a vital role in providing education to refugee children and youth and by contributing in myriad ways to refugee communities. In many contexts, refugee teachers are at the heart of humanitarian response efforts. And yet, refugee teachers are all but invisible in global and national refugee and education policies, strategies, and frameworks. In addition, they face significant challenges in terms of recruitment, recognition, compensation, and professional development, which in turn contributes to high rates of attrition within this vital workforce.
In recognition of these facts, NORRAG (Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training) has brought together 48 authors from academia, humanitarian agencies, and think tanks to produce 27 papers that showcase current evidence and offer policy directions to prioritise and protect the work and well being of refugee teachers everywhere."
[Abstract: Editors' information]
Release date: 26.01.2026
Update: 26.01.2026
Thematic context
News worldwide
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- The new UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report 2026 (GEM Report) has been published