The vital importance of education to refugee and asylum seeker children

Today there are more forcibly displaced people globally than at any time since the end of the Second World War. Over half of them are children, with a complex range of educational needs. So how should they be educated and given the opportunities to thrive in their new communities? A group of policy makers, teachers and experts recently met in the Austrian city of Salzburg for a global seminar to discuss and come up with recommendations.