Dear All
Please find information about new forums below. I have asked Paul
Dilley to put the booking form on the file area of the website - but you
can email Martin Murphy for a form directly if you wish -
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Mike
Due to the popularity and success of the 2006 Forums, Action on Access
are pleased to announce four further Disability and WP forums. They will
run in May 2007 in London, South East, Midlands and North East
(including FE staff). Further details below.
Do you know :
Þ disabled learners are still one of the most under represented
groups of students in higher education?
Þ what your legal responsibilities are to disabled learners in the
WP context?
Þ how you can make outreach activities more inclusive?
Þ how disabled students access support in higher education?
Þ how you can embed WP in your university’s disability equality
scheme?
An invitation
Action on Access is inviting you to take part in an innovative
opportunity for HE staff. We are organising four extra free forums to
enable WP and disability staff from HEIs and FE staff (in the North
East) to spend time identifying how they can work together to benefit
disabled students, enhance WP activity, help embed WP within
institutional planning and contribute to creating more inclusive higher
education provision.
The four dates and venues for the events in May 2007 are:
1st May - 12:30 to 15:30 Newcastle: TBC (Lunch Provided)
(Including FE Staff)
3rd May - 16:00 to 18:00 London: University of the Arts
15th May - 12:30 to 15:30 Guildford: TBC (Lunch Provided)
23rd May - 12:30 to 15:30 Birmingham: TBC (Lunch
Provided)
The forum sessions will include presentations, examples of current
practice, discussion and an opportunity to work through a self-review
tool focussing on WP and disability issues.
Objectives
* Share expertise to provide a successful experience for
under-represented students.
* Allow WP and disability practitioners to work together.
* Explore how to support disabled learners participating in WP
activities.
* Devise methods to raise the profile of disabled students along
with other under-represented groups.
We are also asking delegates to volunteer to deliver a 10 - 15 minute
informal talk during the seminars, which focuses on where WP and
disability staff are working well together. Examples that provide a way
forward for others would be particularly welcome.
Please draw this event to the attention of your counterpart in WP or
Disability.
It would be beneficial if WP and Disability practitioners from the same
HEI attend the forum. There is space to indicate this on the attached
form. We are able to cater for up to 20 practitioners in each forum
meeting.
Places will be reserved on a first-come-first served basis.
Mike Wray
Disability Co-ordinator
Action on Access
Edge Hill University
Tel: 01695 650872
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