It seems to surprise many students and the advisers who talk to them
before coming for assessment, but the choice of computer is not a
matter of the assessor's whim or the student's fancy. There is clear
guidance from the DfES that unless there are established disability or
learning difficulty reasons for doing otherwise, students should have
desktop machines. Those interested in reading the guidance should go
to page 8 of
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/studentsupport/administrators/pdf/ACFDE7.pdf
I have arguments virtually every day about this issue and I'm heartily
tired of it. I wish everyone who believes that notebooks are
thoroughly reliable and appropriate machines for students to be using
would pester the DfES to change their advice. I wish they would stop
expecting ACCESS Centre advisers to act as if they were unaware of the
limits imposed on LEA award officers.
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Bernard Doherty
Student Adviser
ACCESS Centre
Anglia Polytechnic University
Tel: 01223 363271 x2534
Fax: 01223 417730
Minicom: 01223 576155
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