SRHE Conference 2016 Ahmad Abd Rabuh Omid Shams PhD Candidate PhD Candidate Operations & System Mgmt. International Law

A tribute to Jo Cox … MP, member of international humanitarian charity, founded friends of Syria group, preventing deaths in pregnancy and childbirth… By doing that, she had put her country first and gave a lesson in humanity to the whole world..

SRHE Conference 30th June 2016 Access, Retention and Success in HE Outline Introduction Why in Risk? What is the nature of the programme? What are the challenges? About Scholars at Risk Case 1 About Amnesty International Case 2 Effectiveness & Measures Conclusion & Recommendation Challenges: reaching out – transcripts - deadlines

Humanitarian Parameters Motives Introduction Why in Risk? War Political Views Ethnic Background Defection The Nature of the program: Motives: what are the objectives of the scholars once the assistance is provided Academic Parameters Humanitarian Parameters Motives

Research Interest Matching Challenges Challenges Visibility Language proficiency Research Interest Matching Track Suitability Transcripts Visas & Immigration Visibility = outreach Transcripts = deadlines & attestations

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Case 1 Name: Ahmad Abd Rabuh Nationality: Syrian Education: 2006: BSc Economics – Damascus Univ. 2016: MBA with concentration on Buss. Analytics – Qatar Univ. Currently: PhD in Operations & System Mgmt. – Univ. of Portsmouth

Case 1 The War in Syria 1967 1978 1983 2001 2011 2013 2016 The president’s hometown In 2013, I joined the MBA program in Qatar University My father went on demonstrations and appeared in several newspapers talking about the massacres committed by the Syrian government. Syrian army broke into our house and my father’s family house. Arrested my auntie Taghreed and her son, Mohamad. He was killed under torturing. In 2016, graduated with MBA and had to find a job within 3 months or get deported I was lucky to contact SAR and get in touch with University of Portsmouth. In 2011 and as demonstrations uprose, I went back to Gulf area and worked in many companies. Visa issues In 2001, I joined Damascus University and completed my BSc in Economics in 2006 In 1967, Golan Heights were suggested to have been traded by the then-minister of defence, Hafiz Al-Assad, in an exchange of backing up his presidency overrule. In 1983, I was born in Doha. In 1978, my parents immigrated to Qatar after racism started to get more noticeable. The Capital Golan Heights