> Date: 01 May 97 10:29:26 EDT
> From: Skill <[log in to unmask]>
> To: dis forum <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Pilot project for disabled students thinking of HE
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> Message from Emma Delap, Skill Information Officer
>
> Skill has been contacted by La Sainte Union College of HE who are planning a
> pilot project in the summer (jointly run between the Centre for Enabling and
> Learning Technologies and the Extended Academic Year Project there) for disabled
> people who are considering applying to higher education or who are planning to
> start next year.
>
> The course will be for a week (June 2 - June 6) in Southampton. The main
> objective is to equip students with a set of effective study strategies as well
> as advice and practical demonstration sessions of equipment that can assist them
> during their studies.
>
> Have any other establishments run similar courses/programmes? or are any others
> considering such a programme? If so, please contact:
>
> Denise Jones
> CELT.
> Telephone: 01703-330100
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> Denise
1.are you looking for people who might attend? If so, is there any
funding involved,or do they have to pay their own expenses? The
dates would make it difficult for anyone who is taking A Level this
year.
2.I think such a course was run in Scotland a few years ago, in
association with Skill. I am sure it could be valuable, as was a
Second Term Workshop which Skill once organised in London where more
than half of the attenders came from Nottingham. When the attenders
came back they formed themselves into a very active pressure group of
students with physical or visual impairments, from which they derived
a good deal of support. Skill was never able to get money to do it
again.
Mary Foley
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