Connected higher education
Connected higher education
CHE includes higher education opportunities delivered:
- through technology and outside the university campus, either in a satellite campus or in a learning centre in a refugee-hosting community
- fully online, enabling students to access the course from any location
- partially on the campus of the host university, with a blended component.
This JWL programme is excellent and I am very grateful to all who have supported it, I cannot relocate to go to university, in Nairobi for instance, but this special opportunity allows me to study here in Kakuma, near my family.
CHE engages students in ways that allow them to link personal interests, peer relationships and opportunities. Connected learning methods have been particularly successful in low-resource and marginalized learning contexts.
Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium
The Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium (CLCC) coordinates CHE efforts. The consortium, led by UNHCR and founded in 2016, designs and implements connected learning programmes. It promotes, coordinates and supports the provision of quality higher education in contexts of conflict, crisis and displacement through connected learning.
How CHE contributes to the 15by30 target
CHE offers enormous opportunities for refugees to access high quality university courses at scale. By bringing higher education directly into refugee-hosting communities, it improves access for hard-to-reach populations, and has the potential to reach even more refugee students. It also provides options for flexibility and pace of learning that help refugees overcome come of the barriers to education in the context of displacement.