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international
G3ict develops policies, standards and technical resources for inclusive ICTs together with United Nations agencies. It engages in institutional advocacy, provides training and certification and organises an annual summit. You will find a lot of information on these tasks on their website. Furthermore, you will find an Open Access publications' section (among others, G3ict [...]

international
"Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities (...) Following these guidelines will also often make Web content more usable to users in general." They were published by the World Wide Web [...]

international
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) provides a list of tools that help evaluate Web accessibility. As there are different definitions of accessibility in different countries, you can filter country specific accessibility guidelines, among others. W3C was created in 1994 as a membership organisation that seeks to standardise techniques in the World Wide Web. [Abstract: [...]

United Kingdom
The Imperial College London's project is first of all meant to help making the College's own websites more accessible according to a UK regulation as of 2018 on accessibility within public sector bodies. Nonetheless, the tips and guides compiled by the College can also help others in making their websites more accessible and inclusive. You will find links to the regulation [...]

international
The author of the blog compiles information on Web Accessibility laws and policies in more than 20 countries worldwide. For each country you will find information on the respective discrimination law/policy (because of disability) and on laws/policies concerning communication etc. The name of the law is mentioned and the author gives a short comment. Unfortunately, there are [...]

international
Quality Matters (QM) is an international network of more thn 1500 organisations in more than 25 countries worldwide. It deals with questions of quality control and management of digital educational resources. We link to a White Paper Series first published by QM in 2020 on digital accessibility and inclusion. The series shares the results of a 2019 survey conducted aming QM [...]

Europe
The Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE) was an EU funded project in the 7th Framework Programme involving nine partners from across Europe. The website itself seems to have no new content since the end of the project in 2016. However, the community itself continues to exist through social media and conference meetings. The website offers various resources on [...]

Europe
The aim of the SHEIA project is to "build a policy development framework that promotes formative assessment and personalized learning, by taking advantage of direct engagement of stakeholders in the development process." The project website provides reports, LA policies, infomration about events and other news. SHEILA is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European [...]

Latin America
The LALA project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union. It is dedicated to the promotion and support of Learning Analytics (LA) in Latin America, especially in Higher Education. Among other things, the project created a framework for the design, implementation and use of LA, as well as plans for quality assurance and dissemination of LA. The website also [...]

Europe
The European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) existed from 2007 till 2015. It was meant to support the EU member states and the European Commission in cooperating in lifelong guidance policy in education and the employment sector. In meetings, webinars and others, comprehensive material was elaborated to inform policy and decision makers. The website provides a [...]

Europe
Overview of the European Commission on evidence based educational policy. This site provides a very good starting point to explore the many activites of the EU, like international comparisons and assessments (e.g. PISA, PIAAC or TALIS), resulting strategic frameworks, EU programmes, projects, portals, networks, reports and more. Interesting sub-sites could be "EU policy in the [...]

Europe
From 17/12/2013 to 15/04/2014, the European Commission ran a public consultation on the question of a "European Area of Skills and Qualifications". The aim of the consultation was to find out "on the problems faced by learners and workers with regard to the transparency and recognition of their skills and qualifications when moving within and between EU Member States, on the [...]

Ukraine; Belarus; Russian Federation
This Russian language website provides a lot of information on disability in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. You can look up thematic keywords, links to organisations in the three countries, authors and their publications. Many links also provide fulltexts (reports, articles, analyses, guides, guidelines, and more). Among others, you will find information on the issue of [...]

Ukraine; Canada
Short final report of a Canadian-Ukrainian project to support inclusive education in Ukraine. Unfortunately, the project website is offline since 2016. An older version of the website as of 22.06.2016 from the Internet Archive doesn't provide the material that was on the site. The website provided information on inclusion in Ukraine, sometimes also compared to the situation [...]

Europe
Overview of the European Commission on activities of the European Union in the field of Higher Education in Europe. The site provides introductions and links to activities, programes, strategies, agendas and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Europe; international
"FRINDOC aims at providing a comprehensive overview of good practices and valuable experiences for universities. The project will develop a framework containing a statement of good practice on internationalisation and an online tool for universities to aid planning and implementation of internationalisation strategies for doctoral education." The project is run by 6 [...]

Zambia
The official page of the Ministry of Science Technology and Vocational Training of Sambia provides basic information about the ministry and its areas, special reports and statistical data, official political guidelines, laws and other relevant documents. The ministry was established with the main function of developing science and technology and provision of technical [...]

Zambia
The Ministry of Education of Zambia provides on its homepage various information about the education system, the institution and its administrative facts, and supplements news, official political documents, guidelines and statistical data. Additionally, students, teachers and parents find useful columns with practical hints to educative questions like learning or after-school [...]

Mauritania
This official website of the university of Nouakchott offers information about the general administration and studying at the university, supplemented by official guidelines and laws from the field of education policy, by details on student's life, on the Mauretanian education system and the disciplines and core aspects of the university.

Mauritania
The Mauritanian Ministry for National Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research provides on its website documents, laws and official decrees concerning the official higher education and scientific policy.

Burkina Faso
The official homepage of the ministry for basic primary education and alphabetisation presents information about the ministry itsself and its activities and educative programs in the field of primary school education. It is focussed on the political guidelines, esp. educative objectives, decrees and legislation and, on the other hand, necessary details concerning school life [...]

Burkina Faso
The official homepage of the ministry for secondary and higher education and scientific research presents the ministry with its political objectives, plans, laws and guidelines including administration data. Additionally, the site contains information and documents about the education system with its recently initiated reform process, about school and university institutions, [...]

Niger
The official homepage of the ministry of national education of Niger presents the governmental activities in the single fiels of education, the legal set-up and administrative contacts and statistics concerning the ministry. Additionally, it offers an overview of the country's education system and its cooperation partners.

Europe
This website offers a detailed overview of the EU legislation in the fields of education, training, youth and sport. It both describes, as reference point, the legal act and the specific political conditions of the EU for each of the four sectors, and shows a summary of the resulting consequences and measures. In this context, it analyses programmes and initiatives promoted [...]

Norway
Current Norwegian framework plan for the content and tasks of kindergartens. Summary of the framework contents and access to the corresponding Norwegian laws (HTML format).

South Africa, Republic
Comissioned by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, the SAQA develops the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for South Africa. It furthermore controlls the enforcement of the NQF and accredits educational institutions working according to the NQF. SAQA is also in charge of the accreditaion of foreign qualifications. The website provides information on the work [...]

France
This website of the Minister of Solidarity and Social Cohesion shows documents, studies, dossiers, statistics, an overview of the publications and official guidelines combined with practical information for specific parts of the society, especially older people, family and childhood, women and their equality and handicapped people.

Norway
The UHR was created in 2000 by merging the "Norwegian Council of Universities" and the "Norwegian Council of University Colleges". According to their own statement, "UHR aims to be a central supplier of terms to the parliament and government and an important education and research policy player." Besides information on UHR and their activities, you will find several full text [...]