Covid-19 can provide the opportunity for universities to remove barriers to education, through distance learning. This has already begun to benefit some pre-sessional learning programmes that have moved to online teaching; furthermore, it can provide the opportunity for greater inclusion in the future. Rather than neglect widening participation goals and…
Online Event: Exploring Access to Higher Education in Scotland for Refugees and People Seeking Asylum
City of Sanctuary and STAR (Student Action for Refugees) are calling on Higher Education Institutions in the UK to sign…
We are delighted to announce the first annual University of Sanctuary national conference will take place at York St John…
University of York Experience Summer Schools (YESS) in partnership with Equal Access
A great blog from Cambridge on how higher education institutions can help in the refugee crisis.
Six new students who are asylum seekers from around the world have found sanctuary in Sheffield this year, after being…
Written by Ben Hudson (PhD Candidate (Law)), August 2016
The students, who are mostly Sudanese, will begin with a year’s immersion in the French language, before taking courses in…