Colleagues,
Registry are developing a New Students form, with an opportunity
for me to make suggestions for improvements. I think that I may have raised
this before with forum-members, but here we go again. Your comments,
please.
How effective do you feel that the registration form used by your
institution is in producing accurate information about the number of
students with disabilities?
The form currently in use at City asks
"Do you have a disability or learning difficulty? Please tick one box. If
you do not tell us of a disability, we cannot make any special arrangements
you may need (e.g. for examinations)"
and then goes on to request that if students have a disability, they tick
boxes to indicate the type of disability, (as they appear in the UCAS
handbook)
What does your registration form ask?
Do you think that a form where the information about
disability (and ethnicity) were physicaly detatched from the main record
would encourage students to trust in the confidentiality of the excercise?
Can we achieve a consensus regarding current good practice (given that
marrying the needs of Registry to work with a very standardised form, and
the wishes of this Disability Officer not to reduce people to tick-boxes is
less than straightforward)
Examples of what details other Universities request would be very useful to
me.
Replies to dis-forum, or to [log in to unmask]
Many thanks
Debbie Gibberd
Disability Officer
0171 477 8806
City University
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
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