Welcome Matt,
Sorry to challenge your first posting (you'll get a lot of that). Surely the
Data Protection Act applies only to data stored electronically. Another smart
lawyer will argue that: If the student tells you rather than enters it into a
data system him/herself then the Data Protection Act may not apply ?????
Welcome again,
Mick Trott
In a message dated 05/07/02 15:23:57 GMT Daylight Time,
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<< My first post......I feel there is a dis-agreement between the Data
protection act (1998) and SENDA in this case. I took advice from a barrister
at an academic registrars conference recently on a similar subject.
He stated that if a specific student asked for no provisions to be in place,
although the university knew of the disability and offered advice/provisions
in terms of teaching or exams, then under the (superseding) Data Protection
Act, you could not provide information on a persons condition/disability to
any other person (even within an institution). Therefore, if a student asks
for no information disclosure, then the institution is exempt and does NOT
have to provide any special arrangements (during or after an exam).
Matt
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