I really, really wish I could find a service like this. I study at
Westminster University suffer from visual impairment and chronic fatigue/
mid brain injury and find that the overhead in recruiting reliable staff and
getting copyright permission to scan in books is exhausting and I'm getting
further & further behind.
Does anyone know of a bureau that I could e-mail voice files to, they type
up verbatium and then extract notes and I get two files returned - verbatium
and notes by e-mail. (I find that others notes often leave out the very
things that I find of interest. Also without going back to the voice files
it's difficult to know how accurate they are, and when they appear to vary
in quality my confidence in the note taker diminishes. Confidence also
decreases when they continually let you down at critical times because they
have their own studies to consider - I'm still waiting for some of my notes
to be done from last semester!!!)
For my court case I need to make an estimate of £££ for someone to
catalogue, get permission and scan into Kurzweill 3000 my collection of
books which number some 2,200. Does anyone know of a modern equivalent to a
typing bureau where I could get an estimate for such work and if the courts
actually approve it do the work afterwards?
Thanks
Elaine
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From: "Michael Trott" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: Notetaking issues, please read and respond
The rates seem very reasonable to me as an assessor. I take it that as the
contract is with you, you pay National Insurance and 4 weeks (one thirteenth
of hours worked) aqs mandatory minimum holiday pay.
What do you work out as your on-costs - 20% should be a minimum?
Mick Trott
In a message dated 03/02/03 17:05:16 GMT Standard Time,
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<< Here at NTU I formulated a payscale which was informed by NATED rates for
notetakers, I tied the suggested scale to APT&C scales and implemented
increments to offer fairness and to allow for movement between the scales
linked to achievement and length of service. The rate begins at £7.40 per
hour and the ceiling is at £10.80, this is for manual notetaking, where
£7.40 is paid to a graduate with no formal notetaking training and £10.80
is
paid to someone who probably has the CACDP notetaking certificate, stage 1
BSL (possibly stage 2) and various other things in between, a PG
qualification, years of experience.
The exact details of people's employment are hopefully being changed so
that
they may become contracted members of staff rather than visiting.
On costs have previously been charged at a blanket rate, but it is my
intention to address this also.
What I would really appreciate is some transparency here from colleagues
about what they pay, what they offer and what they charge. Any pointers to
where or how the rates were obtained from would also be extremely helpful.
I would add that we act as brokers for students and pay the notetakers each
week on presentation of a timesheet and charge the students or their LEA's
at the end of each term. The students 'contract' is with us as suppliers,
not directly with the notetakers, I would be most interested in hearing
from
colleagues who operate in a similar way.
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