Refugee skills wasted
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According to the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (Cara), Britain is wasting valuable skills, by not developing the right skills training for refugees.
The charity has now published a handbook, backed by the government and trade unions, urging refugees to seek funding for training.
CARA claims that there are up to 4,000 refugees living in Britain that have strong technical and academic backgrounds in healthcare, computing, and engineering, but that these skills are being wasted in lower-paid unskilled work due to lack of training.
According to the BBC report Britain ‘wasting’ refugee skills:
The charity says it could cost as little as £1,000 to prepare a refugee doctor to practise in the UK, compared with £250,000 to train someone from scratch.
Other professionals, including engineers and scientists, could have their skills updated for much less.
But, at a time of shortages of skilled workers in these fields, the charity says many refugee specialists are either unemployed or working in unskilled jobs.
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