Basic Education

What is the initiative and where is it implemented (city or country, for example)?

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools and kindergartens in Saudi Arabia have been closed. The members of the International Schools Group (ISG) have transferred to an online learning regime to ensure continuing education under the restrictions imposed by the government.

The initiative of accepting all Afghan children, regardless of documentation and legal status, to schools has been active in Iran since 2016. According to the decree issued in 2015, all Afghan children have the right to study side by side with Iranian citizens at a school level, getting both primary and secondary education (NRC, 2017).

In 2012, Immigration New Zealand, under the direction of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, developed the New Zealand Refugee Resettlement Strategy in order to establish better policies for accepting and orienting refugees, facilitate English language learning and provide access to healthcare and special services (Benseman, 2014).