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The Quest for Refugee Higher Education in Ethiopia: The Case of Self-financing Eritreans
Tamrat, Wondwosen Habtemariam, Samuel Dermas
Tamrat, Wondwosen
Habtemariam, Samuel Dermas
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This study examines the challenges of Eritrean refugees attending their tertiary education in selected private medical colleges in Ethiopia, and the support schemes available to help them cope with their problems. The research involves a sample of 40 randomly selected refugee students and uses focus group discussion and interview as principal methods of data collection. The findings reveal that Eritrean refugee students in Ethiopia face a variety of challenges identified as academic, linguistic, emotional/psychological and sociocultural. Although there are some forms of support offered at governmental level, the institutional level of support is found to be deficient in many respects. Hence, further improvements in facilitating refugee higher education in Ethiopia are posited.
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The definitive,peer reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning
Volume 21, Number 2, May 2019, pp. 120-140. https://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.21.2.120
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2019-05
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Challenges of refugee education, Eritrean refugees, Higher education for refugees, Private higher education, Refugee education
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Tamrat, W., Habtemariam, S. D. (2019) ‘The Quest for Refugee Higher Education in Ethiopia: The Case of Self-financing Eritreans’, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 21, 2: 120-140.