New international paper calls for better training for teachers working with traumatised children

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published June 20, 2019

Released on World Refugee Day and eight years on from the beginning of the Syrian conflict, a new paper released by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report calls for better training for teachers to provide psychosocial support to children who have lived through traumatic events.

The number of migrant and refugee school-age children around the world has grown by 26 per cent since 2000 and ...

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