Dostępność polskich uczelni: wdrażanie art. 24 Konwencji o Prawach Osób Niepełnosprawnych (KPON) w obszarze szkolnictwa wyższego
Accessibility of Polish universities: implementation of article 24 CRPD in higher education

Summary/Abstract: The paper outlines socio-historical factors that led to the emergence of a new trend in doing research on disability issue – Disability Studies and the dissemination of a so- cial definition of disability, on which the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Dis- abilities (CRPD) is based. The main part of the text provides a critical analysis of the implementation process of article 24 CRPD at Polish universities with regard to relevant regulatory acts and using reasonable accommodations. Next, statistical data on students and PhD candidates with disabilities are presented. The main conclusions from thematic reports by the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights and by the disabled persons organ- izations are also presented. In the last part, the disability issue is discussed in the context of creating the Law on Higher Education 2.0 with the case study of amendment no. 47.

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