S3E4 - The Borderless Higher Education for Refugees Project

This is an episode of Behind the Pages - the podcast of the Journal on Education in Emergencies. Join us for these exciting and timely conversations with JEiE authors about their work on education in regions affected by crisis and conflict. The Borderless Higher Education for Refugees Project: Enabling Refugees and Local Kenyan Students in Dadaab to Transition to University Education by Wenona Giles The Borderless Higher Education for Refugees project, or BHER, is an initiative among two Kenyan and two Canadian universities to offer innovative higher education to Somali students in the Dadaab refugee camp and students in the town of Dadaab. Join JEiE’s Claudia Segura and author Wenona Giles as they discuss the development, growth, and success of the BHER program, and the ways it has worked with students who may be unprepared or excluded from traditional higher education.