Well done everyone who spotted my deliberate mistake, Senco instead of
Senda. Just keeping you on your toes.
Susanna.
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Subject: Re: Disabled Students, yes or no!
I am fairly sure that this would constitute "less favourable treatment"
and would therefore be open to challenge under the SENDA. We stopped
this practice about 4 years ago, and offer students a meeting with me to
identify anything we have to do to support them. The offer of a place is
only an issue if there are Occ Health implications e.g. for teaching or
health professions.
M
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:44:43 +0100 Susanna Hancock <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Trying again!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susanna Hancock
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 2:15 PM
> To: 'Jan Stow'
> Subject: RE: Disabled Students, yes or no!
>
>
> Colleagues,
>
> I'd be interested to know what your admissions depts do when
> recruiting disabled students. Here, if a student answers the question
> "have you got a disability", with a "yes",they are asked the "nature
> of their disability", which in my view is a silly question. Then, if
> they meet the criteria for a course, they, unlike their able bodied
> peers, are told that somebody will phone them to discuss their
> impairment, and whether they can have a place. Only when they have
> filled in an assessment sheet about their impairment, and spoken to a
> member of the disability support service will a decision be made about
> whether they can have a place at MU. I'm sure in the majority of cases
> a place is given, but am I alone in feeling uncomfortable about this
> process. Are they being treated less favourably? On what grounds
> would they be refused a place. It doesn't sit well with me when set
> against our staff recruitment processes.
>
> It reminds me of my own application to a certain university, where I
> wasn't given a place, despite good A level grades, until I had seen
> the university psychiatrist. This, I was told, was because a previous
> blind student had " dropped out and joined a drugs culture". Well,
> it's a well known fact that blind people are all the same!
>
>
> I'm not an expert on admissions, though I am an Equal Ops
> professional; I'd be interested in what other colleagues, and disabled
> members think about this. Is it a necessary safeguard in case a
> disabled student cannot be accommodated? Where does this leave SENCO?
>
> Responses eagerly awaited.
>
> Susanna.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Stow [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 9:22 AM
> To: Susanna Hancock
> Subject: Re: Disabled Students, yes or no!
>
>
> Dear Susanna
> I have just come across your email. At KU I have in full-time
> administrator, an administrator who works 6 hrs a week and an
> information consultant who work two days. These posts are funded from
> the HR Strategy of which your institution should have recieved futher
> funding for three years. As EO is an important element of the
> strategy, I would suggest that additional resources should be met
> from this funding. Regards
> Jan Stow
>
>
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Margaret Scott
Disability and Equal Opportunities Adviser for Students Canterbury
Christ Church University College North Holmes Road Canterbury CT1 1QU
Tel: 01227 782842
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