Inclusive education requires strategic planning by educators, administrators, and education institutions to create a learning environment that allows students to participate equitably. In an effort to keep up with global developments, head of UNTE Mrs. Wadad Wazen Gergy represented Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ) in a 2-day capacity-building workshop (6-7 October 2022) organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) within the framework of Lebanon Five-Year General Education Plan.

The workshop’s objective is to build a national policy and implement inclusive education for learners with disabilities, to provide participants with skills to increase the quality of education and to anticipate and remove learning barriers. Participants discussed different strategies to develop simple curricular content to help students with disabilities to achieve quality inclusive education and to implement simple practices aimed at making academic institutions places where all students can actively learn.

The promotion of opportunities for inclusive education is a worldwide effort, and has been an integral part of USJ’s mission since its foundation. USJ is committed to creating an equitable and inclusive learning environment for all in compliance with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to integrate with the economy for future economic progress and social development. This can be achieved through building a network and chain of partnerships between Universities and professionals in order to align strategies to help transform higher education to provide a supportive and interactive, digital, adaptive, and dynamic student learning experience.

Inclusive education requires strategic planning by educators, administrators, and education institutions to create a learning environment that allows students to participate equitably. In an effort to keep up with global developments, head of UNTE Mrs. Wadad Wazen Gergy represented Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ) in a 2-day capacity-building workshop (6-7 October 2022) organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) within the framework of Lebanon Five-Year General Education Plan.

The workshop’s objective is to build a national policy and implement inclusive education for learners with disabilities, to provide participants with skills to increase the quality of education and to anticipate and remove learning barriers. Participants discussed different strategies to develop simple curricular content to help students with disabilities to achieve quality inclusive education and to implement simple practices aimed at making academic institutions places where all students can actively learn.

The promotion of opportunities for inclusive education is a worldwide effort, and has been an integral part of USJ’s mission since its foundation. USJ is committed to creating an equitable and inclusive learning environment for all in compliance with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to integrate with the economy for future economic progress and social development. This can be achieved through building a network and chain of partnerships between Universities and professionals in order to align strategies to help transform higher education to provide a supportive and interactive, digital, adaptive, and dynamic student learning experience.