Almost 7,000 Syrian students are enrolled in Jordanian higher education institutions for the 2018-2019 academic year, Secretary General of the Association of Arab Universities (AARU) Amr Salama said Sunday (June 23rd).
AARU has implemented a special project to support the education of Syrian students in Lebanon, the Kurdish region of Iraq and Jordan, funded by the European Commission in co-operation with Turkey, Germany and Mediterranean Universities Union, Salama said in a statement, carried by the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
The project, implemented in co-operation with Erasmus Plus programme, aims to help universities of partner countries to receive Syrian students in various academic specialisations by establishing units to support and employ Syrian students, The Jordan Times reported.
AARU has exerted considerable efforts to carry out this project that targets Syrian students, mainly those who were not able to continue their studies at Syrian universities and could not afford tuition costs due to refugee conditions, Salama said.
In addition to scholarships, the secretary general said that the project also offers training courses for Syrian students in vocational, technical and technological fields and languages, as well as offering them extracurricular activities.
