Welcome to Education Action
If you just want to find out everything about education in developing countries, you're probably on the wrong site! And if you want to find out general information about education for refugees, you won't find it here. So if this is what you want, go now, to our links page and there you'll find lots of websites that can give you information.
However, if you want to find out what we do in former war torn countries and fragile states and with refugees from war in the UK, you're in just the right place. Through our projects and programmes we try to make sure that children, young people and adults get the best education possible.
We focus on what works [and what doesn't] in education in some of the most challenging circumstances in our world, former war torn countries. We try to be brutally honest so that children, young people and adults in countries devastated by conflict get the very best education possible.
Programmes
We're also concerned with the plight of refugees and asylum seekers from former war torn countries and fragile states living here in the UK. Through our programmes and action research projects we want to help them get an education that will help them rebuild their country, as well as ensure that they contribute to the development of the UK while they live here.
Getting an education in a place devastated by conflict isn't easy. Education systems are often fragile, the possibility of conflict breaking out again ever present and resources scarce. But just giving someone an education isn't any good unless it's effective. Quality counts wherever you are and just providing more of the same - or just more money - isn't any good unless what a child receives is of good quality.
So look at our website before reinventing the wheel!