Five lunchtimes on inclusion: India's national education body teaches the country how children with Down syndrome learn

For five days this week, at lunchtime, anyone in India with an internet connection can sit in on a masterclass in inclusion. NCERT — the national body that shapes India's school curricula — is running 'Understanding Down Syndrome', a free online series through its Central Institute of Educational Technology from October 26 to 30, aimed at parents, teachers, special educators, health professionals and caregivers. The sessions move from what Down syndrome is, to the point of the whole exercise: how people with Down syndrome learn, build skills and take part fully at home, in school and in the community, alongside other children — and what rights protect that place. Inclusion often fails not from ill will but from not knowing; a five-hour, free, national course is a practical way to close that gap at scale, one teacher and one family at a time.

SDG 4 · Quality education — Mechanism: institutional program