Supporting refugee students in schools: what constitutes inclusive education?

Equity and Quality in Education. Supporting Disadvantaged Students and Schools

• Across OECD countries, almost one in every five students does not reach a basic minimum level of skills. In addition, students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds are twice as likely to be low performers. Lack of fairness and inclusion can lead to school failure and this means that one in every five young adults on average drop out before completing upper secondary education. • Redu...

What constitutes evidence in HIV/AIDS education?

It is clear that many sources of evidence have contributed to our grasp of what does and does not work in HIV/AIDS education. Despite this, there has recently been a distinct move to narrow the evidence of success in this field to experimental and comparative work, with randomized controlled trials positioned as the 'gold standard'. Here we take up the question of what constitutes evidence in H...

Swedish Folk High Schools and Inclusive Education

87 Forum DOI: 10.18261/issn.1891-5949-2017-02-03

Supporting medical students with learning disabilities in Asian medical schools

Learning disabilities (LDs) represent the largest group of disabilities in higher education (HE) institutes, including medical schools, and the numbers are continuing to rise. The worrying concern is that two-thirds to half of these students with LDs remain undiagnosed when they start their undergraduate education and may even graduate without having their disabilities diagnosed. These students...

What Constitutes a Contract?