In addition to feeding into your institutions' formal responses I would
be greatly interested to informally hear your thoughts on the use of
Disabled Students' Allowance data as a possible basis for mainstream
student-related funding for disability.
You can obtain the consultation from:
http://www.niss.ac.uk/education/hefce/pub98/98_39.html
Many thanks
Richard Townend
Policy Development Officer
HEFCE
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> Subject: HEFCE fund proposals
>
> There is an HEFCE consultation document floating about HEIs
> at the moment - Widening participation in higher
> education: finding proposals. All Vice Principles have been
> sent a copy.
>
> It includes some interesting proposals and invites
> comments, such as should the number of students in receipt
> of DSA be used as the indicator of disabled student numbers
> in an institution? Which would then be used to measure the
> amount of student related payments to institutions.
>
> For those who haven't seen it the reference is 98/39.
> Comments are required by 2 November.
>
> I would think that members of dis-forum would be in a
> position to make some interesting comments to the HEFCE,
> (but may also be omitted to be involved in the consultation
> process by our institutions).
>
>
> Bryan Jones
> Equal Opportunities Adviser
> London Guildhall University
>
>
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