Few refugees in school

MORE than half the world’s school-age refugees are excluded from education as host nations struggle under the weight of growing humanitarian crises, the United Nations said.

Four million refugee children around the world do not attend school, an increase of half a million from a year earlier, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said in a report.“Education is a way to help young people heal, but it is also the way to revive entire countries,” said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.“Based on current patterns, unless urgent investment is undertaken, hundreds of thousands more children will join these disturbing statistics.” The UNHCR said there were nearly 20 million refugees under its mandate, which excludes about 5 million Palestinian refugees, by the end of 2017 as the number of displaced people worldwide grew.