From left, Vice Justice Minister Lee Jin-soo, Vice Training Minister Choi Eun-ok and Kim Sae-ryo, consultant of U.N. Excessive Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Korea workplace, pose throughout a memorandum of understanding signing ceremony on the institution of a devoted observe for refugee college students within the International Korea Scholarship program, at Authorities Advanced Seoul, Thursday. Courtesy of UNHCR
Korea has opened a brand new schooling pathway for refugee college students by including a devoted observe to its state-funded scholarship program, based on the U.N. refugee company and schooling authorities.
The U.N. Excessive Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Korea workplace, the Ministry of Training and the Ministry of Justice signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding Thursday to strengthen help for refugee college students by increasing entry to larger schooling in Korea.
Underneath the settlement, as much as 5 refugee college students might be chosen annually by way of a newly established refugee observe inside the authorities’s International Korea Scholarship program for worldwide college students.
This system targets refugees dwelling in abroad camps or related settings who show robust educational motivation and progress potential however lack entry to larger schooling alternatives.
Candidates might be advisable by the U.N. refugee company and screened by way of a joint analysis course of involving Korean universities and the Nationwide Institute for Worldwide Training. The justice ministry will oversee obligatory authorized and administrative procedures, together with refugee standing recognition and residence permits.
The brand new initiative fulfills a pledge the Korean authorities made on the International Refugee Discussion board in 2023 to higher help refugee college students, the schooling ministry stated.
The UNHCR famous that related schooling pathways for refugees are already in place in a number of accomplice nations, together with Canada, Australia and the Philippines, welcoming Korea’s participation.
“By increasing cooperation with worldwide organizations, Korea is diversifying pathways for expertise and strengthening fashions of world partnership,” Vice Training Minister Choi Eun-ok stated on the signing ceremony held at Authorities Advanced Seoul.
Kim Sae-ryo, UNHCR’s consultant in Korea, stated, the transfer marked a concrete step in fulfilling the nation’s pledge on the International Refugee Discussion board. She expressed hope that the settlement would function a mannequin for stronger worldwide accountability sharing.
