{"id":14432,"date":"2013-12-13T17:12:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T01:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?post_type=media-center&#038;p=14432"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:17:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:17:46","slug":"joint-release-education-declines-syrian-children","status":"publish","type":"media-center","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/about-us\/media-center\/joint-release-education-declines-syrian-children","title":{"rendered":"Joint Release: Decline in Education for Syrian Children \u201cworst and fastest in region\u2019s history\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&rdquo;1\/3&Prime; el_class=&rdquo;vc_col-sm-push-8&Prime;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-highlights field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<ul>\n<li>Joint report released by UNICEF, World Vision, UNHCR and Save the Children<\/li>\n<li>More than 1,000 days of bloodshed in Syria have seen millions of children lose their education, schools and teachers<\/li>\n<li>Inside Syria, 1 in every 5 schools cannot be used because they have been damaged, destroyed or are sheltering internally displaced persons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&rdquo;2\/3&Prime; el_class=&rdquo;vc_col-sm-pull-4&Prime;]<style>.owl-ca-item { padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px; }.owl-ca-prev::before, .owl-ca-next::before { color: #dd9933 !important; font-size: 40px!important; }.owl-ca-prev:hover.owl-ca-prev::before, .owl-ca-next:hover.owl-ca-next::before { color: #869791!important; }<\/style><\/p><div id=\"carousel-anything-1\" class=\"carousel-anything-container owl-ca-carousel has-arrows\" data-items=\"1\" data-totalitems=\"2\" data-scroll_per_page=\"\" data-autoplay=\"5000\" data-items-tablet=\"1\" data-items-mobile=\"1\" data-stop-on-hover=\"\" data-speed-scroll=\"800\" data-speed-rewind=\"1000\" data-thumbnails=\"arrows\" data-thumbnail-numbers=\"\" data-navigation=\"true\" data-touchdrag=\"false\" data-keyboard=\"false\" data-rtl=\"false\" data-start=\"0\">[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=&rdquo;14433&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo; add_caption=&rdquo;yes&rdquo; alignment=&rdquo;center&rdquo;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=&rdquo;14434&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo; alignment=&rdquo;center&rdquo;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]<\/div>[vc_column_text]<strong>GENEVA\/NEW YORK\/AMMAN, 13 December 2013<\/strong>&ndash; The decline in education for <a href=\"\/news-stories-videos\/faqs-war-syria-children-and-refugee-crisis\" data-cke-saved-href=\"\/news-stories-videos\/faqs-war-syria-children-and-refugee-crisis\">Syrian children<\/a> has been the sharpest and most rapid in the history of the region, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/wvi.org\/middle-east\/publication\/syria-crisis-education-interrupted\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/wvi.org\/middle-east\/publication\/syria-crisis-education-interrupted\">new paper<\/a> published today.\n<p>&ldquo;Education Interrupted&rdquo; highlights that since 2011 nearly 3 million children from Syria have been forced to quit their education as fighting has destroyed classrooms, left children too terrified to go to school, or seen families flee the country. Progress achieved over decades has been reversed in under three years.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is the first attempt to quantify the full extent of the staggering decline in education in a country where primary school attendance rates stood at 97 per cent before the conflict began in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 days of bloodshed in Syria have seen millions of children lose their education, schools and teachers<\/p>\n<p>At best, children are getting sporadic education. At worst, they drop out of schools and are forced to work to support their families.<\/p>\n<p>Inside Syria, 1 in every 5 schools cannot be used because they have been damaged, destroyed or are sheltering internally displaced persons, says the paper. In countries hosting Syrian refugees, between 500,000- 600,000 Syrian refugee children are out of school.<\/p>\n<p>The worst affected areas inside Syria are those where fierce violence is taking place &ndash; including A-Raqqa, Idlib, Aleppo, Deir Ezzour, Hama, Dara&rsquo;a and Rural Damascus. In some of these areas attendance rates have plummeted to as low as 6 per cent .<\/p>\n<p>Syria was a regional leader in education enrolment before the conflict, yet in less than three years the sharpest regression in education of anywhere in the region occurred with dire consequences for the future.<\/p>\n<p>The paper details some of the factors that have contributed to the rapid emptying of classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Inside Syria, intensifying violence, large population displacement, the killing and flight of teachers and the destruction and mis-use of schools have all made learning more difficult for children. Many parents report that they have no option but to keep their children at home rather than risk sending them to school.<\/p>\n<p>In neighbouring countries different language and dialect, different curricula, limited or no learning spaces, physical safety, poverty, and community tensions are keeping children away from classes. Meanwhile, children and teachers from host communities are faced with over-crowded classrooms and increased pressure on education systems.<\/p>\n<p>The paper also sets out critical actions that &ndash; if taken now &ndash; could reverse the slide. These include:<\/p>\n<p>&ndash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Protection of education infrastructure inside Syria &ndash; including ending the use of schools for military purposes, declaring schools as zones of peace, and holding accountable those parties to the conflict who violate the protection of schools.<\/p>\n<p>&ndash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Doubling of international investment for education in host countries to expand and improve learning spaces, recruit additional teachers and slash the costs of getting children into classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>&ndash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Innovative approaches to overcome education needs of Syrian refugee children through such as transferrable certification for refugee students.<\/p>\n<p>&ndash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Scaling up proven models such as home-based learning, non-formal learning centres and child-friendly spaces that provide psychosocial support for children[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>About <\/strong><a href=\"\/\"><strong>World Vision<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong><br>\nWorld Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization conducting relief, development, and advocacy activities in its work with children, families, and their communities in nearly 100 countries to help them reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.&nbsp;For more information, please visit <a href=\"\/about-us\/media-center\/\">www.WorldVision.org\/media-center\/<\/a>&nbsp;or on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldVisionUSA\" target=\"_blank\">@WorldVisionUSA<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14433,"template":"","leader":[],"class_list":["post-14432","media-center","type-media-center","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issues-disaster-relief","issues-education","media-center-resource-press-release","press-issue-syrian-refugee-crisis","regions-europe-middle-east","regions-jordan","regions-lebanon","regions-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Joint Release: Decline in Education for Syrian Children \u201cworst and fastest in region\u2019s history\u201d | World Vision<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/about-us\/media-center\/joint-release-education-declines-syrian-children\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joint Release: Decline in Education for Syrian Children \u201cworst and fastest in region\u2019s history\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Remedial education classes at the World Vision partner women&#039;s center in Irbid, helping Syrian refugees and poor Jordanians. 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