The National Coalition calls on Lebanon to reconsider the decision to prevent Syrian students from education
The Syrian National Coalition called on the Lebanese authorities to reconsider the decision to prevent Syrian students from education, after talking about preventing them from school exams.
The coalition said in a press statement yesterday, Wednesday, that the impossible conditions set by the Lebanese Ministry of Education for the right of Syrian refugee students prevent 80% of them from continuing their education.
The Coalition added that the Lebanese authorities are responsible for providing education to refugees, calling for the lifting of the discriminatory restrictions imposed on them, and the removal of any obstacles that prevent Syrian students from taking their school exams.
The coalition pointed out that the invocation of refugee students’ official papers issued by the Assad regime in order to accept their entrance exams is unacceptable because it means forcing students and their families to review the regime’s embassy.
It emphasized that the Assad regime may blackmail refugees and exploit their need to compulsory voting in the mock elections that are to be held on May 26th.
The “National Coalition” concluded that this step contravenes the Lebanese government’s pledges and commitments, and this has multiple disastrous effects, stressing that this represents a kind of corruption and overt plundering of international aid provided by the international community to Lebanon in order to provide basic services to Syrian refugees, including these services, education.
Yesterday, Human Rights Watch said in a report that the Lebanese Ministry of Education is preventing Syrian refugee students from taking school exams unless they present official documents.
The organization called on the Lebanese Ministry of Education to preserve the right to education, and to immediately cancel its requirement that students have legal residency to take school exams.
