And it's my understanding that it is, though I'm sure there's a similar
level of disagreement between LEA Officers.
The actual quote from Chapter 7a (pages 15-16) is this "The cost of any
special arrangements that institutions may need to make to enable a
disabled student to take examinations (e.g. providing physical access to
the examination hall or allowing the examinations to be taken and
invigilated somewhere else) should not be set against DSAs. Additional
costs which the disabled student himself needs to incur in taking his
examinations (e.g. some sort of helper or item of specialised equipment)
would however fall within the scope of DSAs;"
I think that makes things as clear as anything is in DSA.
Bang goes my working party. Oh the times we could have had.
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Kath Henderson
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PO Box 191
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Michael Trott
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"Discussion list
for disabled
students and
their support
staff."
Your missing the point. Or perhaps I was too brief. Students are often
given
extra time in exams - I've had some HEI asking for the cost of the extra
invigilation time to be paid from DSA. My argument was that this was not
reasonable as the institutions only charged where a student received DSA.
All
exam arrangements are usually the responsibility of the institution at
present. However, DfES may be persuaded otherwise, in which case I'm happy
to
go along with that. I do not feel strongly one way or another about the
principle and feel that institutions might reasonably expect that cost to
come from DSA in the future. At present though it's my understanding that
it
should not.
Mick T
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<< Mick,
I understand the principle of institutions supporting exam costs but there
is a very distinct difference between invigilation and support
such as amanuensis/readers/communication support. It should be obvious
that
one is a provision that is made to all students and is not
disability specific whereas the other is support ie specifically
non-medical
helper support.
With regard to those who break a wrist etc - well, they don't even come
under the definitiion of disability so they are irrelevant as far as
DSA is concerned.
We pay for invigilation costs from MDF but not the support costs. It seems
quite clear to me how the two differ.
What I fail to understand is how the principle of funding support for
teaching as in note-takers, interpreters etc through DSA should
suddenly change just because it's an exam!
Paddy >>
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