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