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August 31st to September 12th, 2025 UNHCR Progress in refugee education at risk from funding cuts, UNHCR warns GENEVA – Cuts to humanitarian and development aid are putting hard-won recent progress in refugee education at risk, warns UNHCR in the tenth edition of its annual Refugee Education Report, published today. “There have been tremendous efforts to increase enrolment at all levels for refugees,” Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said in the report’s foreword. “But there is still so much more to do.” Strikingly, the report shows a leap forward in tertiary enrolment to 9 per cent, up from 7 per cent last year and well on progress to meet the target of 15 per cent by 2030. Even though more re...