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Abstract
There are an increasing number of scholarship opportunities for refugee students in higher education, including the DAFI scholarships and the Mastercard Foundation scholarships. However, in Tanzania, Congolese refugee students in the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp are struggling to benefit from these opportunities. These refugee students are held back by their limited English language skills, and by the fact that as they still follow the curriculum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), their country of origin, they have to wait for an extended period to receive their certificate of curriculum completion from DRC. This paper explores the potential use of the host country curriculum as an alternative secondary school education pathway that could help Congolese refugee students take advantage of available scholarship opportunities to access higher education. It proposes ways to implement this alternative pathway based on focus group discussions conducted in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp.