Sorry, John - who do you mean by 'we'?
Regards
Margaret
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Dr Margaret MacDougall
Medical Statistician
Public Health Sciences
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John Conway wrote:
>we could ask all universities to respond to your request, Margaret - I think it would be most interesting!
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>Dr John S Conway
>Principal Lecturer /Disability Officer / Chair, Research Committee
>Royal Agricultural college, Cirencester, Glos GL7 6JS
>01285 652531 fax 01285 650219
>http://www.rac.ac.uk/?_id=590
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>From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. on behalf of Claire Wickham
>Sent: Tue 19/02/2008 17:56
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: In search of UK University statistics on dyslexia and dyscalculia
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>As I understand it there is no alternative data collection apart from the HESA figures that do not list dyscalculia separately. I guess some students might tick the dyslexia box and others unseen/not listed whatever so it would be impossible to get an accurate picture of the numbers of students who are dyscalculic.
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>But I'd be interested to learn if there is another source?
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>ATB
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>Claire
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>From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. on behalf of Margaret MacDougall
>Sent: Tue 19/02/2008 16:04
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: In search of UK University statistics on dyslexia and dyscalculia
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>Dear List Members
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>Apologies for cross-posting
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>I am most interested in obtaining a UK-wide perspective on the annual
>statistics for students reported as having dyslexia or dyscalculia within
>universities. Here, at the University of Edinburgh, we have related
>statistics for our own university published on our university website.
>However, I would prefer to avoid having to contact each University
>separately, if general statistics are available by a more efficient means.
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>I am sure that someone out there has the answer so please let me know if
>you can help by pointing me to a directory for example, with a view to
>saving me a lot of time in writing individual institutions.
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>It would be particularly helpful if these statistics were broken down on a
>departmental basis in order that I can get a feel for the support needs
>within Medicine in particular. However, any help that you may be able to
>offer would be appreciated.
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>Many thanks
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>Best wishes
>
>Margaret MacDougall
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