Fifteen Minute Survey: January 2011

Research on the higher numbers of disabled students who study Creative Arts and Design programmes in Higher Education.


Hi, I'm Kym Roberts, Senior Policy and Information Officer for Skill in Wales. 

I am undertaking research (towards an MSc, Equality and Diversity) into the reasons why there are consistently higher levels of disabled students who choose to study creative arts and design in Higher Education.

I would be so grateful for your help. The source of answers will not be revealed and specific answers will not be re-produced except with your prior written consent. 

The questions are designed for completion in around 15 minutes or so. A short yes or no answer is fine, followed by some key information relevant to your institution. 

This survey is based on your professional knowledge and expertise. In answering the questions, a couple of concise sentences will be sufficient to provide an indication of your disabled student cohorts in relation to arts related programmes. Please feel free, however, to expand if you would like to make any comments which help to illustrate your answer. The UCAS category ‘creative arts and design’ is utilised to capture information for the relevant programmes. 

Survey

Please could you answer the following questions (and thank you in advance): 

1. Would you describe your institution as:

(a) 	a multi-discipline HEI within which creative arts and design courses are offered as combined or discrete programmes of study; or 

(b) 	a HEI which embodies a specialist college or facility where the main mission is creative arts and design. 



2. Have you found that in your institution there are more disabled students of creative arts and design than most other programmes? 



3. On what do you base your opinion i.e. on what is your opinion formulated? 



4. What is the proportion of disabled students according to the UCAS categories, who study creative arts and design at your institution? 



5. If you agree that there are more disabled students studying programmes in creative arts and design than other subjects, could you offer your opinion as to why you think disabled students choose creative arts and design? 



6. Would you say that there is predominant disability among those disabled students who choose to study creative arts and design, and if so, how would you categorise the predominant disability? 



7. Is your HEI proactive in attracting disabled entrants; what does your HEI do specifically to attract disabled students (e.g. research, marketing, policies, recruitment strategies)? 



8. Do you record statistics on the progression and attainment of disabled students on creative art and design courses? Do you know how these compare with the progression and attainment of disabled students in other subjects at your institution? 



9. What may be the reason for any differences? 


Please could you return the completed survey by 28 January 2011
Thank you very much for your help. Please return the survey to:

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I will let Dis-Forum have the results of the survey. Just to confirm, the survey is for the MSc  - so it is not related to the formal work of Skill.

Very best wishes, 


Kym Roberts