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HIGHER EDUCATION IN UKRAINE:
FROM INTEGRATION TO INCLUSION
Dr. Kateryna Kolchenko
President Adviser for Inclusion, Open International University
of Human Development ‘Ukraine
According to Human Rights Organisations Alliance
'Save the Children” about 15% ofall school-children are excluded
from general school system because of its inability to meet the individual needs of such children
The situation in higher education is not much better.
Universities exclude not only those 15%
but also many students who have received
secondary education
Historically the integration of some students with disability began in the USSR in the 1930s and continued
spontaneously only due to persistence and courage of
students themselves and their parents
In 1930-th Bauman Moscow Technical University
first officially opened its doors to students with hearing impairments.
Students studied in separated learning groups with appropriate pedagogical
accommodation and occasionally they had contact with other students (dormitory, café,
sport groups, cultural events)
Present stage of integration in Ukraine started only in 1999
when the Open International University of Human Development
‘Ukraine’ (University ‘Ukraine’)was founded
Open International University of Human Development ‘Ukraine’
(University ‘Ukraine’) is anon-governmental & non-profit
higher education institution, established as the
first of its type in Ukraine
University structure: 6 institutes,1 faculty & 1 colledge in Kiev, 16 institutes & branches,
3 colledges in all regions of Ukraine, which allow
to ‘deliver knowledge to people’s residence’ for students with low
income or low mobility
‘‘UKRAINE’ in UKRAINEUKRAINE’ in UKRAINE
KYIV
Mikolayiv
Khust
Horlivka
Poltava
Bila Tserkva
Luts’k
RivneZhytomir
Khmelnits’kiyVinnitsya
Kirovograd
Dnipropetrivsk
Melitopol’
Nova Kahovka
Dubno
Ivano-Frankivs’k
Ternopil’
Storozhynets’Nikopol’
Kiev Institutions:
• Social Technology
• Philology & Mass Communications
• Economy & Management
• Law & Public Relations
• Computer Technology
• Engineering Technology
Mission of our University – to provide quality higher education
for people, who desire to reach their full potential,
including those with disability
Main goal - to provide equal access to education
for people with special needs
Today there are about 32 000 students
in our University, and one thousand students with disability among them.
All-together there are about 8 000 students with disability
in all Ukrainian universities
Students with disability
come to our University
from special ‘closed’ schools, where they were segregated
from society,
or they come from families,
where they also were separatedfrom ordinary school system
So all participants
of educational process
(students, lecturers and students with disability)
have mutual difficulties,
trying to adapt to each other
in new integrated educational environment
Inclusive education
excludes any kind of discrimination
and provides equal attitude
to all people, but ensures
the special conditions
and support for students
with special educational needs
Ukrainian model of inclusive higher education
was first developed in our University with the help of
BESO volunteer prof. Peter Mittler from Manchester University
and Joahim Klaus, Karlsruhe University (Germany)
Model is based on such principles:
Delivery of educational services to the place where student with disability lives
Provision of full access to education Flexibility of educational process and
methods Pre-university adaptation to the integrated
educational environment Monitoring of learning process and results Provision of pedagogical and psychological
supportProvision of conditions for comprehensive
development of the individual
Since 2003 our University is building
first in Ukraine completely accessible
University Campus
as a model of
‘Inclusive University of Future’
System of educational support :
Technical Pedagogical Psychological Medical and rehabilitation Sport-recreational Social Professional adaptation
Technical support has to:
compensate for the functional limits of students
provide equal access to learning materials
provide students with adaptive technical devices and special technologies of learning
• Optimization of teaching technologies
• Transformation of educational materials into a form appropriate for each kind of disability
• Implementation of modern pedagogical methods of education
• Provision of educational materials in appropriate format
Pedagogical support provides:
Testing psychological profile of each student
Care about psychological comfort
Providing necessary help in adaptation into integrated educational environment
Assistance in personality development
Psychological support
Universities have to provide quality educational
services for students with disability,
but their socialisation is not the University’s responsibility
Therefore in 2003the Ukrainian NGO of students with disability ‘Gaudeamus’ was created to involve them into full social life and to ruin
psychological and physical barriers between them and society
Several Annual events were established
by the initiative of our NGO :
• International Conference ‘Actual problems of education in integrated educational environment’ (2000)
• Competition of Scientific Work of Students with disability (2005)
• Art festival for students with disability ‘Shine of Hope’ (2003)
• Ukrainian Sport Games for Students with Disability (2004)
Socialization of students with special needs, their social adaptation Overcoming of social isolation of studentsImprovement of their social statusInvolvement in all aspects of social life
Social support is directed onto:
• Involvement in active physical activities, including Paralympics
• Health life style motivation• Improvement of psycho-physical
condition• Increase motivation to learn
Sport and recreational support :
Our main pain is that after 6 years in integrated
university environment our graduates with disability
return to society which is not prepared to accept them as equals, where they are still
excluded from normal life, where their needs are ignored
Therefore in 2006
we established
Career Development Center
to help graduates with disability
and their future employers
to understand each other better