PRISTUP VISOKOM OBRAZOVANJU OSOBAMA S INVALIDITETOM U FEDERACIJI BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: In this paper examines the possibilities of access to higher education persons with disabilities in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In accordance with the stated goal, international documents and FBiH legislation as well as relevant professional and scientific literature were chosen as the subject of analysis. Using the document content analysis method, it was determined that only a small number of people with disabilities have access to higher education. International documents have given domestic legislation a framework for enabling opportunities for people with disabilities to access higher education, but domestic social and educational legislation do not offer significant chances to achieve the same. Also, the legal regulations on work do not have elaborate provisions related to the work of persons with disabilities, and based on the obtained results, reforms of the education system are proposed with the aim of education for employment. A bright spot is the proposal of the Law on Amendments to the Law on Professional Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities, which highlights the reasons for the need for amendments and therefore represents a sine qua non for access to higher education for persons with disabilities. At the end of this paper, the authors point to the need to adopt a register of persons with disabilities and a register of students with disabilities in the territory of FBiH and say that domestic legislation should quickly proclaim the ratified Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in accordance with Art. 24 and Art. 26., it is mandatory to proceed with the ratification of Art. 10 of the European Social Charter and amend the Framework Law on Higher Education in BiH in Art. 38 and harmonize with Art. 7 of the same law due to the protection of students with disabilities from discrimination.

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