The AchieveAbility National Network is pleased to be working in partnership with the University of Westminster and the Higher Education Academy in developing and embedding inclusive policy and practice.
The Higher Education Academy commenced its new 14-month-long programme to support HEIs, Developing and Embedding Inclusive Policy and Practice. It began with a start-up event in July 2007 for 10 participating institutions. These were selected from 29 proposals submitted, in which HEIs outlined a change project they wished to work on during the programme. Of the 10 projects, several focus on disability equality and include embedding inclusive curricula in HE, developing an integrated approach to equality and diversity, and enhancing learning, teaching and assessment strategies and practices for disabled students.
The programme is organised around four events, where teams of staff from within HEIs come together to work alongside other HEIs focusing on similar themes. Research is being conducted by the Academy during the course of the programme to enable other institutions to learn from the change projects. A dissemination event will be held on 10 September 2008.
The AchieveAbility National Network is represented by Katherine Hewlett for the Significant Interest Group on Inclusion
The Higher Education Academy leads an interest group of research managers and specialists to support the dissemination of inclusive practices in HE institutions. Members are working on collaborative projects for the HE sector, which bring together and build on their own research outputs and activities, including the following;
These collaborative projects will be conducted during 2007–08.
