Intensive language-learning boosts Germany's refugee employment

Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University professor, Caucher Birkar, with his Fields Medal for Mathematics

Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University professor, Caucher Birkar, with his Fields Medal for Mathematics Source: Getty Images

In the German town of Heidelberg, a group of migrants is on track to enrol in one of the country’s most prestigious universities, thanks to an intensive language program.


Learning German has been cited as one of the factors that's led to a 50 per cent increase in refugee employment in Germany, in the space of a year.


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