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Research project revised website The research project has been substantially revised based on received comments and suggestions in the recent months including those who are members of this list. Many thanks. Bibliographic information and abstracts together with keywords are as below. Current Public Policy Issues regarding Access to Higher Education by Disabled Students: Research Project Homepage Konur, O. (1999) Access to Higher Education by Disabled Students: Current Public Policy Issues. Research Project Homepage, First created on 22 June 1999, 18 May 2002, 45,000 words (London, City University). [Online] http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~cx639/index.htm Abstract This paper aims to present abstracts of the research output from the interdisciplinary research project titled as 'Access to Higher Education by Disabled Students: Current Public Policy Issues" carried out as a self-funded project between 1 October 1998 and 30 September 2002. Following a decade long rule-making process, Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA) (2001) extends the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) to education including higher education in a three stage model starting from September 2002 with the 'less favourable treatment duty'. At the absence of such regulation, a 'good practice model' has been adapted where the players have had no incentives to develop evidence-based policies and practices regarding access to higher education by disabled students. The main hypothesis in this model can be summarised in one sentence after Lord Ashley's remarkable language; "all is well and lovely". The DDA (1995) and the SENDA (2001) have been marketed as bringing 'rights' for disabled people at large focusing on the 'less favourable treatment' and 'reasonable adjustment' duties for the employers, education providers, service providers and landlords among others. However, as the research suggests the jurisdiction tests, disability tests, discrimination tests, and enforcement tests of these Acts do matter. Furthermore the access to 'impartial' and 'independent' tribunals, access to legal aid, access to legal representation and legal expert witness, access to medical expert witness, access to accounting expert witness, access to occupational expert witness, access to tribunal decisions do matter besides the four tests of these Acts. The recent debates in the House of Lords on the 'Readings' of the Disability Discrimination (Amendment) Bill and the recent consultations on the European Employment Directive (2000) among others provide support for such contentions besides the real life experiences of disabled people in their attempt in accessing employment and justice in tribunals and courts since 2 December 1996. An interdisciplinary comparative research methodology have been adapted to ascertain the current public policy issues emerging from the decade long rule-making processes in access to higher education, professions, and graduate employment by disabled students in the UK. The experience of disabled people in accessing employment and justice as well as experiences of students in accessing higher education and justice have formed the focus of the research to ascertain the efficiency of the rules made under the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001) as well as the 'the good practice model' adapted in higher education where it is deemed that 'all is well and lovely'. The abstracts are provided in this homepage for the peer-reviewed journal articles, peer-reviewed conference proceedings, peer-reviewed conference presentations, conference paper proposals, research seminars, book chapter proposals, journal proposal, articles in professional journals, doctoral research proceedings, reports, research briefs, project proposals, public policy response papers, conference reviews, outreach papers, JISCMAIL discussion lists, Resources for the Disability Discrimination (Amendment) Bill (2002), Resources for Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001), biography among others. The information about the research working papers are also provided without any abstract for copyright reasons. Where possible full-text links are provided for educational and disability accessibility purposes. The underlying research project has been registered for a Ph.D. project between 1 October 1998 and 30 September 2002. Dr. Mike Floyd has been the Supervisor. Keywords Ozcan Konur, disability, disabled students (students with disabilities, impaired students), higher education, postgraduate education, doctoral education, service provision, National Postgraduate Committee (NPC), Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), Department for Education and Employment (DfEE), Department for Education and Skills (DfES), student representation, students' unions, universities, colleges, Disability Rights Commission (DRC), National Disability Council (NDC), Disability Rights Task Force (DRTF), Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Disability in Education Bill consultation paper, Special Educational Needs and Disability Bill (2000), Special Educational Needs and Disability Bill (HL) 2001, Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001) (SENDA), response paper, training, City University, Rehabilitation Resource Centre, board of studies, code of practice, Disability Discrimination Act of 1995 (DDA), Human Rights Act of 1998 (HRA), Disability Rights Commission Act of 1999 (DRCA), higher education funding councils, National Union of Students (NUS), student appeals, student complaints, disability law, higher education law, academic staff, academic freedom, disability research, higher education research, literature review, dissertation, doctoral research, institutional theory, new institutional economics, institutions, disability studies, interdisciplinary research, computer mediated communication, dis-he-policy list, blind-mobility-research list, Disabled Students' Allowances (DSAs), funding for disabled students, disabled graduates, disabled graduate employment, higher education employment, student finance, student support, discrimination, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, gender discrimination, public funding, DSA regulations, DSA consultation, respite care, management information systems, entrepreneurship, higher education governance, higher education management, discrimination law, discrimination policy, widening access, equal opportunities, higher education law, charity law, assistive technology, Association of University Administrators (AUA), e-learning, communications and information technology, Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, ILT, unincorporated associations, employment law, charity law, law of associations, tax law, free speech, freedom of association, individual model of student involvement in students' unions, institutional model of student involvement in students' unions, academic standards, scholarship, teaching and learning, transition planning, draft regulations, ABAPSTAS., Disability Discrimination (Amendment) Bill, Access to Justice Act (1998), disability tests, jurisdiction tests, discrimination tests, enforcement tests, access to legal aid, access to legal representation and legal expert evidence, access to medical expert witness, access to accounting expert witness, access to occupational expert witness, access to tribunal decisions, access to 'impartial' and 'independent' tribunals, access to justice, access to professions. ________________________________ Ozcan KONUR Postal address: Rehabilitation Resource Centre (Walmsley Building Room W223), City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, The United Kingdom. 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