The right to inclusive education is enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD). The IN1school project, initiated by the Dutch Association for Disabled Children (NSGK), aims to put the right to inclusive education on the Dutch agenda.

There are few areas which cause more heartbreak and distress for children with intellectual disabilities and their parents than education does. The statistics are clear - children with intellectual disabilities are increasingly excluded from mainstream schooling, and either isolated in special schools, or denied access to education completely.

Eirini Kareta is EU Programmes Manager at the British Council and one of the key organisers of the project “Inclusive Schools” (“InScool”, in short). We interviewed Ms. Kareta as part of our campaign of 2020 focused on inclusive education, motivated to learn more about the InScool project.

When it comes to education, policies and practices in most European countries are becoming increasingly divergent. In fact, while many states are developing policies formally geared towards inclusive education, the segregation of students with disabilities has been constantly growing since 2008.

  Inclusion Europe’s annual Europe in Action conference took place from the 26-28 of May in Lisbon, Portugal.It was co-organised by Inclusion Europe and its Portuguese member FENACERCI. It went very well. Lots of people came from all over Europe and even Australia, Canada and the United States to talk about how to make schools...

Inclusion Europe member Insieme recently shared the results of a study on schooling integration of children with disabilities led in two cantons of Switzerland.

Inclusive education will be the focus of the 2014 Global Action Week entitled ‘Equal Right, Equal Opportunity: Education and Disability’. The event, scheduled for 4-10 May is organised by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), a broad civil society coalition advocating for free and compulsory, quality public basic education for all children.

At the end of his compulsory secondary education, Rafael Calderón was told that he wasn’t able to learn more. Now he has become the first Spanish person with Down Syndrome to obtain a professional degree in Music.