That's as maybe, it does not alter the fact that students
with disabilites are being offered accommodation on less
favorable terms. A cinema would not get away with charging
wheelchair users extra, because a permanent seat could not
be fitted in the area set aside for the wheelchair, which
loses the company revenue when no wheelchair user attends.
I would also dispute whether DSA should be used to pay
rent.
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:40:54 -0000 David Laycock
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> When I've encountered these in the past I've assumed that any
> excess cost (due to the student's need for extra facilities) would be
> charged to the DSA. This is simply in line with the basic concept
> that the DSAs are there to cover those extra costs incurred through
> study by a disabled student arising purely from their disability.
> Leaving aside the motives of any particular service, universities
> have been squeezed hard by governments for close on twenty
> years and have been encouraged to treat large sections of their
> service as self-funding. This is frequently true of student
> accommodation, which, being one step removed from central
> management, may well be reluctant to adjust its fees.
>
> If reducing charges made them reluctant to take disabled students
> we'd all be the losers. Given there is a simple alternative I don't see
> the need to ask them. If they offer, that is another matter.
>
>
> Dave Laycock
>
> Head of CCPD
> Computer Centre for People with Disabilities
> University of Westminster
> 72 Great Portland Street
> London W1N 5AL
>
> tel. 020 7911-5161
> fax. 020 7911-5162
> WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/
Bryan Jones
Equal Opportunities Adviser
London Guildhall University
Tel: 020 7320 1137
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