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Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations

The Hechinger Report

Deep beneath the surface of a massive refugee crisis that’s the worst since World War II is the less well understood reality that tens of thousands of university students leaving Syria and other countries have had their educations interrupted — educations needed for those nations to rebuild if and when the conflicts in them end.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Sophomore Abigail Reing’s food science major doesn’t leave enough space in her schedule for regular language study, so she took a course with a Spanish section. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. The bad news?

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From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S.

The Hechinger Report

Here’s a story from the Hechinger archives about the “lost generation” of refugees who are languishing in red tape as they seek to resume their college educations in the U.S. Related: In one country, immigration is seen not as a burden, but as an economic gain. In Syria alone, from which 4.8 In Syria alone, from which 4.8