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nice idea - but as somone said earlier - where is the fairness and equality in some paying a fortune for a new assessmetn and others getting in by the back door for free! Lets have simple and equal rules for all John ________________________________________ From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Jeremy Fox [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 24 September 2010 15:00 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: SFE - and their decisions. I believe the way SFE and DSA-QAG handle DSA issues could be vastly improved. However, this particular decision strikes me as fundamentally right. The DDA - and, I assume, the forthcoming Equality Act - requires institutions actively to remove barriers, to avoid age-related criteria in making decisions, and to take positive steps to anticipate and remove discriminatory obstacles. Personally, I shudder at the idea of a faceless bureaucracy requiring a potential DSA recipient to jump through additional hoops on the basis of a day's difference in their date of birth. Flexibility and sympathetic judgment are what one would hope for from decision-makers in a society that cares for its citizens. "Given what can be achieved through intelligent and humane intervention," writes Amartya Sen , "it is amazing how inactive and smug most societies are about.....disability...Conceptual conservatism plays a significant role." (The Idea of Justice, Penguin, pp. 259-260). Something to bear in mind?