Apologies for cross posting
The National Disability Team has launched five more checklists. The
checklists have been designed to provide simple, clear and practical help
to staff considering key areas that impact on the experience of disabled
students.
The new checklists are:
Marketing Checklist: This checklist contains information and resources
relating to the consideration of disabled students in any promotional
activities or procedures including publicity and promotional resources,
school liaison events, and promotional work with international students.
It will be useful for staff in HEI marketing units and international
offices and staff with responsibility for organising open days and school
liaison events.
Employability Checklist: This checklist contains resources and information
relating to the consideration of disabled students in employability. It
focuses on the issues of gaining rewarding employment at an appropriate
level for disabled graduates including the accessibility of work based
learning, placements, work experience, field trips overseas study and
volunteering opportunities. It will be useful to Placement tutors, staff
delivering sandwich courses and foundation degrees, academic staff and
working groups with responsibility for employability within the
curriculum, including field trips and overseas study.
Admissions Checklist: This checklist considers the process of application
and focus’s on how applications from disabled people might be more
effectively handled. There are specific issues that must be considered
when dealing with disabled applicants such as ensuring that open days are
accessible and written information is provided in alternative formats.
General issues such as confidentiality and opportunities to disclose are
also raised and the checklist covers the whole cycle of application from
marketing to interview and through to clearing.
Library and Learning Resources Checklist: This checklist addresses the
accessibility of information and services offered to support learning in
higher education. The checklist assists staff as they consider the
accessibility issues for disabled people to: print and electronic sources
of information; resource databases; information technology including
enabling equipment; photocopying and reprographics; inter library loans
procedures; and other core services. The checklist will be of use to staff
managing and delivering library and learning resource services in
institutions offering higher education programmes of study.
Catering and Residential Services Checklist: This checklist considers
issues which impact upon university and third party managed halls of
residence, accommodation finding services, university catering and
conference facilities. It provides a series of prompts for staff within
the catering and residential services function to support the review of,
and improvements in, the accessibility of provision in relation to
disabled people.
Why not add the briefings and checklists URL to ‘your
favourites/bookmarks’ now?
http://www.natdisteam.ac.uk/resources_briefings.html
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