inclusive education

Click here for the easy-to-read version Making life at university more inclusive: This is the goal of “Inclusive Campus Life” (ICLife for short), a project Inclusion Europe participates in. On 9 and 10 November, ICLife will organise a conference in Geel (Belgium) on the subject of campus accessibility. A wide range of presentations and workshops...

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

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.

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.