A small correction to David's message on DSAs.
The Government's response to Dearing is that they expect DSAs to continue and that they are minded to agree with Dearing that in future they should not be means-tested. The Government will CONSIDER carefully Dearing's recommendations that DSAs should be extended to other groups of students (part-timers and post graduates).
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> Now that these are to continue, non-means tested, and to include PT
> students, if there are any issues of fine tuning which people still
> want to communicate, the time to do so is very short. A White Paper
> will be published in late September or October which will contain
> most of the detail, so there is not time to set up surveys, call too
> many meetings, take soundings from students etc. If you are even 70%
> confident of what needs to be said then go ahead and say it.
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> Dearing reccomended a single agency for disabled students to deal
> with for DSAs. This might be an extension to the existing Scottish
> agency or a separate one for England and Wales. Either way it should
> produce greater consistency of response on the funding side, for
> better or worse remains to be seen and depends on your point of view.
>
> Dave Laycock MBE
>
> Head of CCPD, Chair of NFAC
> Computer Centre for People with Disabilities
> University of Westminster
> 72 Great Portland Street
> London W1N 5AL
>
> tel. 0171-911-5161
> fax. 0171-911-5162
> WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/
>
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