Tag: Disability

The Campus Capacitas in Valencia obtains the Gravissimum Educationis Award

On June 22, 2021, the Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education, Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, presented in Valencia, Spain, the Gravissimum Educationis Award of the Holy See to the Campus Capacitas of the Catholic University of Valencia (UCV) in a solemn academic act that served as a gesture of institutional recognition for the educational work…
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Handbook on best practices in Africa and Asia : Improving disabled students’ inclusion within Catholic universities

The access to higher education for people with disabilities is a crucial issue for higher education institutions (HEIs) and, in particular, for Catholic HEIs in the light of the Church’s humanistic values and intellectual tradition. In this regard, IFCU launched an international project entitled “Towards an Inclusive Culture and Pedagogy” in 2014, with the aim…
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Have you heard about CIRAD’s Policy Briefs collection?

In 2019, the CIRAD published a first Policy Brief in the framework of the IFCU international project that sought to improve inclusion of disabled students in Catholic universities. This year, the second Policy Brief deals with digital divide within higher education that is a current major challenge due to the pandemic, which concerns everyone. This…
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