This book examines the transition of young adults with disabilities from school to tertiary education and work.

This book examines the transition of young adults with disabilities from school to tertiary education and work.

This book describes pathways to tertiary education and employment for students with special educational needs. It examines options beyond upper secondary education and the facilitators or inhibitors influencing these pathways in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Norway.

Places notions of disability at the center of higher education and argues that inclusiveness allows for a better education for everyone

With several empirical evidences, this book advocates on the importance of human capital of persons with disabilities and demands the paradigm shift from charity into investment approach. Society in general believes that people with disabilities cannot benefit from education, cannot participate in the labour market and cannot be contributing members to families and countries. To invalidate such assumptions, this book describes how education in particular helps make persons with disabilities achieve economic independence and social inclusion. For the first time, detailed analyses of returns to the investment in education and nexus between disability, education, employability and occupational options are discussed. Moreover, other chapters describe disability and poverty followed by the discussion of barriers behind why persons with disabilities are unable to obtain education despite the significantly higher returns. These foundational themes recur throughout the book.

Taking the students’ perspective, Education Policy Outlook 2018: Putting Student Learning at the Centre analyses the evolution of key education priorities and key education policies in 43 education systems. It compares more recent developments in education policy ecosystems (mainly between 2015 ...