Refugee Education UK is offering an education welcome pack for Ukrainian and Afghan refugees.
The packs include key information about the UK education system and how to access it, a welcome to school and classrooms for children and information about other sources of support, including helpful charities, resources, courses and interpretation services.
See the website for more information specific to Ukraine or Afghanistan.
Date: Wednesday 14 December 2022.
Time: 13:00 -15:00.
Place: Oslo, Norway.
The Activity Alliance has launched an inclusive education PE hub for schools and colleges in England.
As the sport and leisure sector began to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, Activity Alliance supports organisations to increase their commitments to inclusion and to embed inclusive practice into all programmes.
The hub provides support for teachers and school staff to review and improve inclusive physical education and school sport delivery. It is all made possible through the Department of Education funded ‘Inclusion 2024’ project.
Once registered, education professional will be able to complete the Inclusive PE self-assessment. Then they will be directed to relevant resources based on the answers and receive tips to continually improve the way they work.
This month the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) in the UK has launched a professional community for those working with deaf children and their families. The community is hosted on Facebook and is for professionals in education, health and social care to come together and discuss topics relating to working with deaf children.
An open letter, co-ordinated by Early Education and supported by the Early Years Alliance, has been sent to Ofsted (the UK’s Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills). The letter expresses concerns around the quality of Ofsted’s early years review: ‘Best start in life part 1: setting the scene’.
The letter highlights nine areas of concern with the review, raised by over 100 signatories:
The letter asks Ofsted to work more appropriately with a range of experienced practitioners and researchers as well as engaging with sector representative bodies on upcoming reviews.
UNESCO Beirut recently published ‘Promoting the Inclusion of Children and Young People with Disabilities in Education in the Arab Region’. The report analyses inclusive education in Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and makes recommendations for future actions. The report focuses on persons with disabilities but recognises that other groups of learners are marginalised within or excluded from educational provision. It highlights progress achieved and still required and urges governments to take action.
Download the report in English and Arabic.
Location: Kenya.
Duration: 12 months.
Application deadline: 12 December 2022.
Read the full job description.
Humanity and Inclusion is looking for an Inclusive Education Specialist to provide technical guidance, supervision, monitoring and support to the development, implementation and improvement of inclusive education programmes in Kenya.
Person specification:
Read the full job details and information on how to apply.
This report was launched to coincide with the recent COP27, UN Climate Change conference in Egypt. The full report title is ‘Missing in Climate Action: Stories of persons with disabilities from the Global South’. It shares the experiences of people with disabilities affected by the climate crisis in Madagascar and Bangladesh, and highlights that people with disabilities can play a significant role in tackling the climate crisis.
The report looks primarily at the impact on livelihoods, health and wellbeing and only mentions education in passing. But we’re sharing it because it offers an important look at how climate change affects the most vulnerable.
Climate change is an urgent issue none of us can ignore and we call on our readers to write about and share experiences and ideas relating to climate change and inclusive education. You write it, we’ll share it!
Atlas Alliance recently released an update of their advocacy toolkit, first published in 2021. This revised edition is based on experiences from advocacy before, during and after the Global Disability Summit (GDS) that took place in February 2022.
The toolkit was developed with advocacy with the GDS and disability rights in mind but it can be used to guide human rights advocacy more broadly.
Download the Advocacy Toolkit for Civil Society (PDF).
EENET’s Arabic Language Community has started an exciting new small project. Over the next 6 months we will support a group of education professionals from various countries in the Arab region to become effective and published authors on the topic of inclusive education.
The project was kick-started with two short e-workshops on 13 and 14 November 2022. Participants discussed and learned more about inclusive education, action research, critical thinking, communication skills, and practical tips for writing accessible short articles. During the next few months, with one-to-one support from EENET’s ALC Facilitator and peer support, they will conduct action research and draft easy-to-read articles about inclusive education in their contexts.
Ultimately, they will contribute to a short Arabic-language publication like the Enabling Education Review. Long-term we hope this group of action researchers and writers will help other stakeholders in their localities to document and share their inclusive education experiences and ideas.
EENET is keen to expand our writer mentoring project within and beyond the Arab region, so please contact us if you would be interested in supporting this work.
