Policy Goal

The overarching goal of the Inclusive Educational Policy is to redefine and recast the delivery and management of educational services to respond to the diverse needs of all learners within the framework of universal design for learning and child friendly school concept.

  

Definition of Inclusion 

Inclusion is defined in its broadest sense as ensuring access and learning for all children, especially those disadvantaged from linguistic, ethnic, gender, geographic or religious minority from economically impoverished background as well as children with special needs including those with disability.  

Guiding Principles 

The policy is based on a number of underlying principles which hold that:
1. Every child has the right to quality education: thus, all children should have equal opportunity to access education.
2. All children can learn and benefit from education.
3. No child should be excluded from or discriminated against within education on grounds of race, color, sex, language, age, class or other opinion.
4. Changes need to be made throughout the education system and with communities to ensure that the education system adapts to the learner rather than expecting the learner to adapt to the system.
5. All aspects of education including the curriculum, teaching methods, assessment, school culture and environment, present opportunities for promoting inclusion. 
6. Indvidual difference among learners are a source of richness and diversity and not a problem.
7. The diversity of needs and pattern of development of children should be addressed through a wide and flexible range responses.