Conference Theme:

‘‘Universities of all and for All: Innovative and Transformative Strategies for Disability Inclusion in Higher Education’’

Conference Sub-Themes:

  • Higher education policies and legal landscape (sub-regional, national and institutional): inclusiveness, practice/implementation issues, best practices, barriers, facilitators and future directions
  • Curriculum, teaching, assessment, reasonable accommodation and the right to inclusive higher education
  • Disability support services in high education
  • Rehabilitation, assistive technologies, artificial intelligence and inclusion
  • Transition to work, and lifelong learning opportunities in higher education
  • Research partnerships/collaborations, entrepreneurial scholarship and grant winning/management
  • Innovative, transformative and inclusive higher education leadership and change management strategies
  • Innovative initiatives in university admissions, enrollments, students’ leadership, students’ records management and coordination of disability support services
  • Inclusion in higher education regulatory bodies: programs accreditation, chartering of universities, quality assurance and monitoring, representation in decision making bodies
  • Higher education regulation: university accreditation, program accreditation, monitoring and quality assurance
  • Financing of Higher Education
  • Public private partnerships in higher education in special needs education and rehabilitation

Conference Activities:

  • Call for partnership and sponsorship
  • Publish call for abstracts
  • Reviewing abstracts and communicating abstract decisions
  • Conference registration
  • Issue conference program with abstracts
  • Inviting conference participants
  • Stakeholder pre-congress /conference dinner
  • Conference presentations (physical and online)
  • Exhibitions, Site tours and Entertainment
  • Selection of conference papers publication
  • Formation of East African Congress on Inclusive Education
  • Journal launch