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Proposals to reduce the education gap between native students and immigrants
Mariana Andrei - Communication Coordinator
16 January 2015
The paper “Enhancing EU Education Policy: Building a Framework to Help Young People of Migrant Background Succeed” highlights once more the difficulties faced by migrant children to adapt to the European education systems.
The overall early school leaving rate is 33% for immigrant children, more than double the overall 14.1% rate in the European Union. Similarly the unemployment rate among youth is significantly higher for first and second generation immigrants than for their native colleagues in most EU member states. Therefore the paper prepared by SIRIUS in cooperation with Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Europe analyses several proposals for local, national and regional institutions to support education systems to become more focused on the community and integrated with other services, in order to reduce the educational disparity between native and immigrant students.
It is well known that in many countries across Europe children with immigrant origin (editor's note: third country nationals) have significantly poorer school results than their native colleagues. They have certain specific educational needs, face language barriers and discrimination and mass education policy often ignores such aspects.
According to EU data, 8.3 million youth from EU member states (3.1 million below 15 years old and 5.2 million aged 15 - 24) were born abroad, while the number of second generation migrant youth (aged 15 – 34) is estimated at more than 4 million.
The SIRIUS network, launched by the European Commission in 2001, is focused on the education of children and youth with immigrant background and works together with experts, politicians and practicians to improve the school results of these children.
Source:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/enhancing-eu-education-policy-building-framework-help-young-people-migrant-background
The overall early school leaving rate is 33% for immigrant children, more than double the overall 14.1% rate in the European Union. Similarly the unemployment rate among youth is significantly higher for first and second generation immigrants than for their native colleagues in most EU member states. Therefore the paper prepared by SIRIUS in cooperation with Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Europe analyses several proposals for local, national and regional institutions to support education systems to become more focused on the community and integrated with other services, in order to reduce the educational disparity between native and immigrant students.
It is well known that in many countries across Europe children with immigrant origin (editor's note: third country nationals) have significantly poorer school results than their native colleagues. They have certain specific educational needs, face language barriers and discrimination and mass education policy often ignores such aspects.
According to EU data, 8.3 million youth from EU member states (3.1 million below 15 years old and 5.2 million aged 15 - 24) were born abroad, while the number of second generation migrant youth (aged 15 – 34) is estimated at more than 4 million.
The SIRIUS network, launched by the European Commission in 2001, is focused on the education of children and youth with immigrant background and works together with experts, politicians and practicians to improve the school results of these children.
Source:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/enhancing-eu-education-policy-building-framework-help-young-people-migrant-background
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