Dear All,
I am a voluntary disability officer at the City University Student
Union. I am also a hearing impaired student at the university.
My task is to conduct a survey of the impaired-students at the
university with the instituional support of both the university and
students' union. The purpose is to have a user feedback on the
services provided by the university.
I believe quite a number of similar work has been done by other
higher education institutions.
Currently, nearly 3% of the students have expressed some kind of
impairment in their application forms. However, the inputs from a
number of the service providers suggest that there are also those who
have not expresses any kind of impairment.
I believe there must be a way to include this impaired student group
in the survey.
There is also a need to design questionnaires in an objective way not
to mislead service users.
I belive there must be some kind of standard practice on how to
design this kind of questionnaires, how to conduct them, how to
process them, as well as how to integrate the findings to any policy
making process.
I would appreciate any kind of help and advice in this matter
especially from the disability/ equal opportunity officers of the
universities who have done similar exercises.
I would also appreciate any kind of feedback from the impaired-studen
comunity about their views on this kind of surveys including the ways
to improve the content and quality of these surveys.
My post address :
Ozcan KONUR
Disability Officer
The City University Students' Union
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
Fax: 0171 505 5601
e-mail number: [log in to unmask]
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