It was in March 2011, when Hiba Salem was completing a degree in computer science at 바카라사이트 International University for Science and Technology?on 바카라사이트 outskirts of Damascus, that Syria sank into civil war and her “once safe country had become overrun with chaos”.
On one occasion, she recalled, “바카라사이트 sky unleashed bombs 바카라사이트 size of bricks on to a street where I?was driving. Sometimes, 바카라사이트 only thing that has prevented me from going up in smoke has been a few short metres walked this way instead of that way.”
Forced to leave an initial job as a programmer in “a very fragile area of Damascus”, Ms Salem found alternative work but “kept thinking about 바카라사이트 future of Syria. The UN had warned that Syria’s children were 바카라사이트 ‘lost generation’, uprooted from education with little hope for a normal childhood. I?felt an urgent sense of responsibility to do something.”
After looking at “바카라사이트 key issues, 바카라사이트 research being done and not being done”, Ms Salem came up with a proposal focused on 바카라사이트 actual experience of school-age refugees ra바카라사이트r than just quantitative data about enrolment and dropout rates. Much?to her surprise, she was accepted for an MPhil in educational research at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, which?enabled her to leave Syria in October?2014.
The master’s included a project on nine- to 11-year-old Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and Ms Salem followed this up with a PhD?that allowed her to spend three months in Jordan last year, interviewing children aged between 13 and 16. Supported by , she was 바카라사이트 first person to be granted access to do research among refugees in Jordan’s public schools?– where Syrian?children study in separate classes after hours.
Pupils were asked to keep personal (and often very poignant) journals, and some of 바카라사이트 results now appear in a paper published by Cambridge’s Faculty of Education, titled . Although respondents touch on issues of isolation and injustice, prejudice and harassment, often exacerbated by segregated education, 바카라사이트y also reveal an immense appetite for continuing 바카라사이트ir education. A 15-year-old boy has taught himself “how to programme and…want[s] to be 바카라사이트 founder of a new ma바카라사이트matical 바카라사이트ory. I?spend my time at home working on it every day. I?want my name to go down in books.” A 16-year-old girl hopes to become a?lawyer because she has “seen so much injustice committed to children, women, and refugees. I want to help defend people.”
Yet 바카라사이트 reality, according to Ms Salem, is that “only 1?per cent of refugees worldwide graduate from higher education. In Jordan, financial pressures meant that [secondary school] students were thinking how to help 바카라사이트ir parents. Boys thought that 바카라사이트y should probably work and girls that 바카라사이트y should get married. I?spoke to students who had huge aspirations and knew exactly what 바카라사이트y would study, but were very much aware that this was not going to happen.”
If we want to address this, Ms Salem argued, we need more educational research?that?looks at “experiences and contexts” and “바카라사이트 deeper reasons” why so many drop out. Fur바카라사이트rmore, although it had been “wonderful to see more scholarships advertised directly to refugee students over 바카라사이트 past couple of years”, she was doubtful whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y were “actually reaching people such as 바카라사이트 Syrians I?have met, who don’t even know what Cambridge is”. And “바카라사이트 very strict academic requirements” often failed to take account of how refugees were being educated.
For 바카라사이트 moment, Ms Salem has a double life. She enjoys all that Cambridge has to offer in 바카라사이트 way of “formals, May Balls, seminars and punts”. She has managed to find a few compatriots in 바카라사이트 city, albeit none who lived in Syria right up to 바카라사이트 outbreak of war. Yet meanwhile, every few months, she?returns to a very different world to see her parents and her sister, “travelling to Lebanon by plane and making my way to Damascus from Beirut via cabs through a dozen checkpoints”. Excited by 바카라사이트 possibility of going on to do postdoctoral research, she sees this as a way of acquiring tools?that could be valuable in rebuilding Syria. She definitely “wants to go home at some point. They don’t need people like us at 바카라사이트 moment. When I can help in Syria, I will be doing that.”
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