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Nearly a decade after more than 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar’s military violence in 2017, the humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps is often described in terms of food rations, shelter or security. Yet one of the most consequential dimensions of the crisis remains largely overlooked: education.
More than half a million Rohingya children of school age are currently living in the camps in Bangladesh. Most of them still lack access to formal, accredited education. For many, schooling is limited to basic learning centers that provide only rudimentary instruction without recognized certification or clear pathways to secondary education. The result is that an entire generation is growing up without the skills, qualifications or opportunities necessary to rebuild their lives.
This is rapidly becoming a structural regional problem.
The Rohingya crisis is already one of the largest protracted refugee situations in the world. Without meaningful access to education, it risks something worse: the creation of a permanent lost generation.
