TCCE-2022 event discussion panel inclusive higher education

TCCE-2022

Please join the TCCE-2022 (International Conference on Trends in Computational and Cognitive Engineering) event online.

9 panellists from 6 countries will discuss inclusive higher education on 19 December 2022.

Join the meeting using this zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87989123438.

The panel will consist of the following distinguished experts (alphabetically listed):

  • Prof David Brown, Nottingham Trent University, UK
  • Prof Linda Daniela, University of Latvia, Latvia
  • Mrs Petya Grudeva, National Association of Professionals Working with People with Disabilities, Bulgaria
  • Mr Karel Van Isacker, PhoenixKM BV, Belgium
  • Dr Fakhrul Islam, University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, Bangladesh
  • Prof Md Saiful Islam, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
  • Dr Rajesh Kaluri, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
  • Prof Dora Levterova, Plovdiv University, Bulgaria
  • Dr Sabarimali Manikandan, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad/Bhubaneswar, India

The session will be moderated by:

  • Prof M Shamim Kaiser, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
  • Dr Mufti Mahmud, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Livestream recording: link to stream

Topics addressed:

Points of discussions were:

  •  Barriers of implementing inclusive education in Bangladesh.
  •  What are the opportunities and challenges of inclusive higher education?
  •  What must change in the culture of the education system and its institutional framework before true shifts in policy and practice for equity & inclusion will occur?
  •  How can we move towards an education system that is more responsive to individual student’s personal circumstances?
  •  Targeting educational interventions – do we risk “blaming the victims” of inequity, exclusion, low income children and their families?
  •  Inclusive education: How to combine equality in supporting diversity with accessibility requirements?
  •  Inclusive education in South Asia: what is the current policy, culture, practice?
  •  Diversity, equality and accessibility as strategic concepts and goals for the development of an inclusive society.

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