DIVERSASIA - Best practices

This study aims to find out the current problems in higher education for Students with visual impairment and developing adequate programmes for visually impaired students in order to enable them to achieve successful goals of. Hence, it demands immediate attention for study and research. Findings of this study reveals the fact that Higher educational system in India is accessible for only few students with disability, there is an emergent need to focus on several areas i.e. education, health and rehabilitation, support for everyday living skills, livelihood opportunities, advocacy and campaigning to fight against disability. There are several other factors which affects the quality of higher education which includes lack of qualified teachers at higher education levels as well as lack of human resource training centre, substandard quality of research, underprivileged support system at administrative level, inappropriate curriculum and examination system, , and financial constraints