Future Inclusive Education

The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for promoting lifelong learning. Inclusive education fosters an environment for access to quality education by addressing diversity and barriers that can cause exclusion. COVID-19 has reimagined Higher Education with new challenges and opportunities for the present and future. Digital divide, gender inequality, addressing specially-abled students, and a non-inclusive learning environment are the major barriers to inclusive education. Inclusive education ensures that ‘no one leaves behind’, and higher education institutes can enhance their capacity building to promote inclusivity for the common good. Employability is one of the key concepts in higher education that builds the workforce and contributes to nation-building. With COVID-19, nature of work has seen radical changes; hence, graduate attributes have evolved with the 21st-century skills. The chapter emphasizes the role of inclusive education and reimagining higher education with suggestions to using existing strategies in life-long and futuristic inclusive learning.