Does anyone know if it is possible to find out how many FE/HE students in
the UK have declared they have MS?
Deirdre Rusling
Helpline Worker
MS Society of GB & NI
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Laycock [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 06 November 1998 08:43
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Disabled Students and UCAS
>
>
> From: Jack Cannon <[log in to unmask]>
> > A throwaway line from a
> > staff member here suggested that UCAS statistics are very often wrong in
> > two ways, neither of which is the fault of UCAS:
> >
> > Students do not declare their disabilities for fear of rejection (as
> > opposed to Acceptance)
>
> > Students tick the wrong boxes and establishments find that they have a
> > deaf student where, for example, they were expecting a visually impaired
> > student.
> (This can't happen very often surely.)
>
> > Has any establishment done any comparitive statistical analysis covering
> > these problems and does anyone have any comments?
>
> Your own Mark Pymm can confirm what many of us find, that the
> number who tick the UCAS boxes, and thus end up in MIS
> statistics, is many times the number who come forward for the
> DSAs. Typically at our own uni central stats may tell us there are
> over 350, while we know of less than 100. Fear of discrimination
> may be a factor, but when we contacted as many as possible
> some years ago, most had ticked the box but felt they had a
> condition that the DSAs could do little to assist. Many diabetics,
> for instance, see little point. Some with minor, though noticeable,
> gait problems will "prefer not to make a fuss".
>
> Whether they will be left alone to make this choice once HEFCE
> starts funding HEIs on the basis of DSA stats remains to be seen.
>
>
> Dave Laycock
>
> Head of CCPD
> Computer Centre for People with Disabilities
> University of Westminster
> 72 Great Portland Street
> London W1N 5AL
>
> tel. 0171-911-5161
> fax. 0171-911-5162
> WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/
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