I surprised, Bernard, that you've stopped making specific
recommendations for dyslexia-related study skill support. In other
places this forms part of the assessment. If its 'up to the adviser to
write to the awards officer explaining what is intended and how much it
will cost' isn't this flying in the face of what seems to be the
prevailing view that assessment and provision should be separated?
Chris Chubb
University of Bristol
--On 23 January 2004 18:22 +0000 Bernard Doherty
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> I cannot speak for other ACCESS Centres or assessors, but the
> practice in this Centre is to recommend that the student discuss the
> matter with the dyslexia support tutor to determine if such support
> is appropriate. In practice, our reports establish permission for
> DSA payment if the college or university seek to arrange it.
> Typically, the phrasing will mention that students are generally
> granted up to 40 hours a year at a cost of up to £45 an hour,
> although individual needs vary and charges differ from region to
> region. It is then up to the adviser to write to the awards officer
> explaining what is intended and how much it will cost. This seems a
> fair division of labour to me: what is viewed as appropriate and how
> much it costs vary enormously from one institution to another.
>
> At the same time, I am constantly struck by how much virtually all
> the students I see would benefit from individual attention to their
> work and their ways of working, far more (I suspect) than from the
> technology (or the technology without human support) that tends to be
> our focus. In this regard, I am not surprised that the number of
> recommendations is increasing. Some students need a great deal of
> help and advice with virtually every area of their work: with it,
> they succeed; without it, they fail. Who is to provide it in a
> modern university where the function of the individual tutor has
> changed so dramatically in the past decade or so?
>
> However, this simply reflects my thinking and the general practice of
> this Centre.
>
>
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