The following notice was posted to the NDT website (www.natdisteam.ac.uk)
last week.
The National Disability Team is pleased to announce that it has been
reappointed by the HEFCE for the period 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2005.
The NDT will relocate to Anglia Polytechnic University (APU) based at the
Chelmsford campus; a satellite base in Manchester will also be established.
The team will increase in size, enabling it to not only provide support to
disability projects funded under the new HEFCE programme 2003-05, but also
act as a first port of call for any HEI seeking advice or guidance with
reference to supporting disabled students. This is particularly important in
light of the recent introduction of the Special Educational Needs and
Disability Act. The NDT has formed a strategic alliance with Action on
Access, the widening participation co-ordination team, to jointly deliver a
range of activities; the team will also work much more closely with a range
of other key organisations to further ensure the mainstreaming of disability
issues across the higher education sector.
Dr Sheila Watt, Head of Widening Participation Policy at the Funding
Council, says:
"We have been very pleased with the work which the NDT has done for the
sector over the last three years. The comments made by project managers in
their annual monitoring forms show that they have really appreciated the
advice and support that the team has offered. We would like to thank all of
the members of the team: Mike, Carol, Tina, Yvonne, Christine, Jenny and
(till recently) Sally, for their sterling efforts. At our seminars about the
new disability legislation last year, many people said that they would like
to have more support and advice on improving provision for disabled
students. We have therefore doubled the amount of funding which we will give
the new National Disability Team, to allow it to offer an ever wider service
to more people in higher education institutions."
Further details of activities to be delivered by the new team with full
contact details will be publicised shortly.
Apologies for any cross posting.
Best wishes
Jenny Evans
Jenny Evans
Administrative Officer
National Disability Team
Maurice Foss Building
Coventry University
Coventry, CV1 5FB
Tel: 024 7688 7818
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