It is the university's responsibility to ensure they their student is
not disdvantaged when sitting her exam because of her disability. The
DSA will fund an amamuensis for exams (as long as the DSA Assessor has
previously made such a recommendation) but the University cannot refuse
to provide the support, if that is the only reasonable solution, in the
absence of DSA.
Consider a deaf (home) student. The university could not refuse to
provide a reasonanble level of human communication support in lectures
just because DSA had yet to be sorted.
Bryan Jones,
Manager, Disability Support Services
& North London Regional Access Centre,
Middlesex University
Tel: 020 8411 5366
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Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:27 PM
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Subject: Invigilator, scribe and other costs in exams
Hi
I met a student today who told me her university had refused to make
special
examination arrangements because, while they accepted she had a
disability,
her ability to cover the cost of providing an invigilator through DSA
funding was unclear at that time. I thought it was the responsibility of
the
HEI to cover any additional costs that might be incurred in ensuring
students with disabilities receive appropriate accommodations during
exams.
Are people (still) charging students for any extra costs of making exam
accommodations? Is this legal?
Ian Francis
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