Lebanon: Cambridge and Alsama Project partner on new school-leaver qualification to help refugees and displaced youth access university, training and jobs worldwide

Country: Lebanon Source: University of Cambridge Please refer to the attached file. Cambridge and NGO Alsama Project are looking to engage with funders, policymakers and other partners to support them as they scale the qualification worldwide Cambridge University Press & Assessment (Cambridge) and NGO Alsama Project have signed an agreement during the Education World Forum in London to collaborate on a new qualification for refugees and displaced young people. They are looking to engage with funders, policymakers and other partners to support them as they scale the qualification worldwide. The new G12++ qualification is designed to tackle the education crisis faced by displaced youth excluded from university, training and employment, providing them with a recognised pathway to further education and skilled employment. The agreement was signed in the presence of senior representatives of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UNESCO, and the Lebanese Ministry of Education & Higher Education. It will see Cambridge and Alsama Project work together for displaced young people, with the objective of scaling the initiative internationally and enhancing the G12++’s recognition among universities, employers, and policymakers. Globally, UNHCR data show there are 117.3 million forcibly displaced people, including 49 million displaced children. Only 9% of refugees around the world attend higher education, compared with an average of 42% among the global population. Millions of talented young people are locked out of higher education and skilled work, not through lack of ability, but lack of proof. Without a formal high school certificate to show universities, vocational programmes and employers, displaced young people are being left behind, and the world is missing out o...

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