Dear All,
SKILL: its work
I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the SKILL: National
Bureau for Students with DIsabilities as a member for nearly two years
there. It was founded in 1974 to promote the issues in the public with
regrad to disabled students in higher and further education.
I has both campaign and service provider functions where it is funded by teh
Government and other organisations.
Into Architecture booklet which Marcus told about it below, is one of the
booklet series to encourgae disabled students to study in professions
inlcluding law, teaching among others.
Each booklet usually covers stories of students who have been already
studying in these courses. It aims to complement the more formal materials
such as schools, universities etc.
However it should be noted that these epxeriences are very selective
excluding the negative experinces of disabled students.
Hope this message is helpful in intorudcing the SKILL and its work very
briefly. You may wish to visit its web site at http://www.skill.org
Unfortunately it mainly covers disabled student information sheets (one
sheet related to physical accessibility) and not much about its work.
Its membership is open to both organisations and individuals. You may wish
to see the membership information at its web site.
Ozcan Konur
City Unieversity
Marcus wrote:
Hi everyone I was forwarded a letter which was sent to our head of school
from the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities who are producing a
new publication called "into architecture, surveying and building
professions" which is aimed at encouraging people with disabilities to
consider professional careers and in this case building/construction.
They are looking for case studies of students and graduates with
disabilities studying the above fields or working in them. They will then
profile them in the document, I would guess this is UK based, but not sure.
The contact is Paula Grogan on 020 7450 0643 or [log in to unmask]"
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