education: The vast majority are missing out on secondary school, according to The Guardian. The UN's special envoy for global education, Gordon Brown, told the Guardian that aid agencies needed to urgently address what he called the human crisis in education provision for refugees. School shortages, oversubscribed classrooms and a lack of teachers in host countries are among the barriers faced by the 3.7 million refugee children aged five to 18 who are currently out of school, according to a UNHCR report published on Friday. He also called on all donor countries to step up with extra money during next month's UN general assembly. We need to invest in refugee education or pay the price of a generation of children condemned to grow up unable to live independently, find work and be full contributors to their communities, said Grandi. The UN's high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, said greater investment in education programmes in host countries was necessary for refugees to be able to settle as adults in their current host communities or elsewhere.
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