> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:15:32 +0100
> Subject: Re: Learning Contracts - Anew
> From: Dorothy Gilroy <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Reply-to: [log in to unmask]
Yes, Val, and a very clear and poised account. Who is Dorothy?
Rod
> This a very interesting dialogue.
>
> On assessment, as various people have said, the skills needed to cope with
> an academic degree should speak for themselves, but it could be likely that
> an assessment AFTER a degree might easily show better literacy skills, and
> maybe better scores on the verbal side of the "IQ" testing, (scores which
> employers like!!)
>
> As far as this type of post-grad course is concerned, surely one is looking
> at professional as well as academic skills, ability to cope on the job in
> various ways, and the professional body might have certain criteria which
> could go beyond any contract drawn up by an academic institution. I have
> come across two cases where brilliant dyslexic post-grads could not handle
> certain work-related
> assessment criteria of the professional qualification; one was advised to
> take another course and is now in research, the other could not work under
> the intense pressure she found herself in on placement; she got the
> qualification after a battle, but is not working in the mainstream of this
> career and has eventually agreed that she is more suited to what she is
> doing now than what she had intended to do.
>
> I think every dyslexic person should be given every chance to prove their
> coping strategies with the full adavntage of a good assessment and all the
> IT they can possibly lay their hands on. But they may come to a point where
> they cannot
> fulfil the professional requirements of the JOB and may have to adapt or
> re-think. This could happen to non-dyslexic people as well.It could be
> dangerous to have a contract written in tablets of stone at this level.
>
> Hope this makes sense!
>
> Dorothy
>
>
>
>
>
> t 18:25 09/07/98 +0100, you wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:19:40 +0100
> >> Priority: normal
> >> Subject: Learning Contracts - Anew
> >> From: "Debbie Gibberd" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Reply-to: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >Dear Val
> >
> >This seems a very civilised sort of approach? Do you know her?
> >
> >Yours sincerely
> >
> >Rod
> >> While that I agree with Bryan that the principle spur to the move towards
> >> learning contracts comes from the Law Society, and the case with
> >> the dyslexic student, I think that the discussion could boaden
> >> out a little again on this topic.
> >>
> >> The move towards adoption of learning contracts in this
> >> university came quite independently of that case, in relation to
> >> a serious complaints made by a student with a sensory inpairment
> >> on a post grad course.
> >>
> >> I am interested in how we build a framework for a contract
> >> which in essence makes sure that :-
> >> the department is tied in to providing certain support.
> >> the student doesnt come up with unanticipated resource-hungry
> >> needs at the last minute.
> >> the university doesnt have a blanket get-out for its
> >> responsibilities to provide core facilities.
> >>
> >> My dilemma is creating a framework which has hard edges in some
> >> requirements and obligations, but soft walls which can adapt and change
> >> according to the direcltly experienced needs.
> >>
> >> I have had useful contact with Nottingham Trent, and will follow
> >> up the contact at Sheffield Hallem, but welcome further
> >> comments from others who are evolving similar procedures and
> >> documents.
> >> Debbie Gibberd
> >> City University Disability Officer
> >> Northampton Square, London EC1V0HB
> >>
> >> 0171 477 8806 voice and minicom
> >> 0171 477 8561 fax
> >>
> >Rod Coveney
> >Registrar and Clerk to the Board of Governors
> >University College Worcester
> >Email: [log in to unmask]
> >Fax: 01905 855132
> >
>
Rod Coveney
Registrar and Clerk to the Board of Governors
University College Worcester
Email: [log in to unmask]
Fax: 01905 855132
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