inclusive education
The SOS-IE initiative aimed to promote equitable access to quality education for learners with developmental disabilities in Lao PDR, aligned with national inclusive education strategies and SDG 4. Its main objective was to pilot and institutionalise transitory classroom approaches within public schools to strengthen inclusive systems and support the participation of learners with autism and intellectual disabilities.
The initiative followed four interrelated strategic aims:
Higher education is too often dissociated from the right to education. In many countries tuition fees are on the rise, and only the privileged have access to, or succeed in completing, higher education, making it difficult to argue that there is an actual right to higher education to be enforced. However, international human rights law is clear: the right to education includes the obligation of states to ensure that higher education is made accessible to all based on capacity.