I'm in agreement with the RNIB: institutions meet the cost for material that
is given to the general student population, the DSA is used to meet
transcription costs for other material. Why would a student want to argue
the point? If the money has been spent on some other purpose, perhaps a new
source of funding might be looked for, but in general I would have thought
that immediate access to course material and the like had a pretty high
priority. (Given that someone is usually scanning stuff and it can be
billed as time, I would use the non-medical helpers allowance.)
Regards, Bernard
Bernard Doherty
Assessor
East Anglia Regional ACCESS Centre
Anglia Polytechnic University
East Road
Cambridge CB1 1PT
01223 363271 x2534
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 11:06 AM
Subject: Transcription costs
> Does anyone have a view as to who is responsible for funding the
> transcription, in to tape audio format, of texts not produced or
> published by the university? It should be the responsibility of the
> university / college in the case of handouts, and marketing materials
> that they produce. But who pays for transcribing texts not produced by
> the institution, e.g. published articles or stories a visually impaired
> student would need for the course? My thinking / assumption is that it
> should be the institutions responsibility, but an RNIB transcription
> service suggest that the student's DSA could be funding it.
>
> Bryan Jones,
> Manager, Disability Support Services
> & North London Regional Access Centre,
> Middlesex University
> Tel: 020 8411 5366
>
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