Developing inclusive policies and practices in HEIs
Promoting inclusive higher education systems is a key priority for Europe. The European Commission highlights the importance of having European Higher Education Institutions, which are inclusive and well-connected with their communities, in order to ensure that Europe’s diverse population is reflected in students’ population. Thus, it is recommended that HEI should target improving access and completion rates by disadvantaged and underrepresented groups.
The InclusiveHE project, a granted Erasmus+ KA2 Project (Project number: 2020-1-FI01-KA203-066572]), focuses on supporting inclusiveness towards individuals of diverse ethnic or social backgrounds, regardless of religion, sexual orientation, migrants, people with disabilities, and other disadvantaged groups in higher education.
The consortium of the project introduces the Inclusive Higher Education Training course which is available in the project website: https://inclusivehe.eu/en/training-course
The training aims at supporting higher education institutions to develop inclusive policies and practices. The target groups include:
- Higher education policymakers and leadership teams
- Learning designers and academics
- Higher education students
Upon completion of the training, the participants should be able to:
- understand the concept of inclusive and its current state of the art;
- familiarize with the most common inclusive pedagogies and their basic pros and cons in education;
- introduce inclusive teaching and learning practices to others (fellow-academics, colleagues, education experts, higher education students, stakeholders etc.);
- apply design-thinking methodology in the design process;
- identify the design elements suitable for the development of inclusive programs;
- design and develop inclusive programs suitable for HE;
- evaluate the usefulness of the existing inclusive programs in higher education courses and provide recommendations for improvement.
