1、Photography UNHCR/Antoine Tardy Understanding Opportunity:Exploring Higher Education Access for RefugeesJuly 2025In 2023,UNHCR,the global leader on refugee higher education,and over 40 individual partners and organisations collaborated to produce the“15by30 Roadmap:Expanding Higher Education,Skills

2、and Self-Reliance for Refugees.”The roadmap lays out concrete actions necessary to achieve the 15by30 target,which commits to ensuring that 15%of refugee youth are enrolled in higher education by 2030(15by30).Priority actions highlighted in the roadmap include cross-sectoral partnerships and collect

3、ive action,multi-year financing,policy changes and increased higher education opportunities for refugees worldwide.Based on current population data,achieving 15by30 will mean that over half a million refugee youth will be enrolled in higher education by 2030,while today,just over 300,000 or only 7%o

4、f refugee youth are known to be enrolled in higher education.While commitment to achieving the goal is robust,consistent and standardised tracking of refugee participation in higher education continues to present a significant challenge to UNHCR,government actors,higher education institutions and ot

5、her sector stakeholders alike.Data on refugee enrolment in higher education remains difficult to collect consistently and accurately due to limited sources,no standard methodology,frequent lack of disaggregation by displacement experience and most critically,limited capacity to build new or adapt ex

6、isting data collection practices.To address these challenges,UNHCR,in collaboration with Times Higher Education,initiated the largest attempted mapping of higher education opportunities for refugees worldwide.Forewordworldwide,it is a step in the right direction.The complexity of the task underscore