European Agency Statistics on Inclusive Education – Shadow Cross-Country Report: 2020/2021 School Year
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The European Agency Statistics on Inclusive Education (EASIE) represents the Agency’s commitment to data collection that informs policy-making.
This European Agency Statistics on Inclusive Education (EASIE) Cross-Country Report is a collation of the individual Country Reports focusing on the 2021/2022 school year.
The report provides 33 indicators relating to access to and placement in inclusive education or otherwise. These have been calculated using the available data from 33 participating Agency member countries and jurisdictions. The indicators are based on two areas of country data:
The event took place as part of the Agency’s Thematic Country Cluster Activities.
The Country Policy Development Support (CPDS) activity is central to EASNIE’s role as an agent for policy change in inclusive education. CPDS is an individualised activity for all EASNIE member countries. It supports reflection on country policy development and implementation issues for inclusive education.
These country repositories consist of a completed CPDS Framework for each country. They contain individual country information about policies and their implementation into practice across the whole inclusive education system.
The Country System Mapping (CSM) activity was an in-depth information-gathering and analysis exercise open to all Agency member countries. CSM aimed to identify, map and analyse the key features of member countries’ education systems that impact upon the effective implementation of policy for inclusive education in practice.
This report focuses on the 2020/2021 school year dataset. It covers pre-primary, primary, lower-secondary and upper-secondary education.
As part of its aim to be an active agent for change, EASNIE has developed a new way of working with its member countries. The Thematic Country Cluster Activities (TCCA) began in 2023, addressing EASNIE member countries’ priorities by working in small clusters of countries.
The Country System Mapping (CSM) activity considers the implementation of inclusive education policy in practice. It aims to get insights into how the needs of all learners – including individuals or groups of learners vulnerable to exclusion from inclusive education – are being considered in individual countries.
This document presents new legislation – laws and policies – for special needs and/or inclusive education that has been introduced in Agency member countries in recent years.