PROMINENT Russian education leaders are visiting Bolton to learn more about how to teach disabled children within mainstream education.
Three education directors and a translator have travelled from Moscow for a study tour around the North-west, which will involve them visiting Bolton Institute. At the Institute they will be given presentations to help them learn how to make their education services more open to people with disabilities.
Lecturer Joe Whittaker said the Russians contacted them expressing interest in visiting Bolton after hearing about the Institute's international reputation in inclusive learning.
He said that in Russia, the concept of inclusive education was only just beginning to take hold.
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