UR’s special needs programme will deliver education to all

The University of Rwanda (UR) is for the first time set to start training teachers with specialised skills to handle children with physical or mental challenges that impair their enrollment and completion of education. Figures show that about 10 percent of all 2,019,991 children at primary school level in 2007 had different forms of disabilities—mild or severe—with potential to disadvantage them while at school because they cannot learn at the same pace as other children. In introducing these courses, UR has taken the first step in implementing the already long-overdue government policy of 2007 that seeks to deliver education to all children, irrespective of their mental or physical state.