Institutional responsibilities

Higher education is in most countries an institutional setting regulated by laws, polices, and guidelines, both at a national and an international level. This chapter refers to student travel through the system of education as a precondition for admission to apply to higher education. By focusing on the structural meso level and knowledge on barriers and facilitators as important for developing inclusive systems of education, this chapter explores how disability as a human condition is accommodated for in higher education. In Nordic countries, the principle of sector responsibility is implemented in politics. This implies that the sector of education is responsible for inclusive policies and practices. The chapter explains in detail the relational interactional model of disability inherent in the CRPD, with a focus on what this model implies in terms of knowledge needs and universal, individual, and contextual accommodations.