The central concern of this report is how best to address the needs of displaced and refugee Syrian students and scholars in Turkey. It is the third phase of a broader research collaboration between the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) Human Rights Initiative. This collaboration studies the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on higher education, and documents the conditions and educational needs of Syrian university students and scholars in the front-line states to the conflict: Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey.
This report is based on a 20-day rapid assessment carried out in five Turkish cities with large Syrian populations in June and July 2014.
