The use of these materials will inform the development of departmental action plans for meeting more effectively the teaching and learning needs of students with various impairments.
In the process, departments will also be able to address the challenges of the QAA Code of Practice: Students with Disabilities, and the requirements of the Disability Rights in Education legislation.
Departmental action plans are likely to have implications for the wider institution, and it is anticipated that departments will share outcomes with other institutional staff with associated areas of responsibility, and who will also be strategically involved in assuring the quality of provision and compliance with legislation, for example, estates departments, or staff development departments.
The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Code of Practice: Students with Disabilities asks institutions to:
'Consider making arrangements which ensure that all academic and technical staff:
The application of Disability Discrimination legislation to HE would advocate 'reasonable adjustments' which would prevent disabled students from being placed at substantial disadvantage in comparison to students who are not disabled. 'Reasonable adjustments' can be in relation to, for example, admissions procedures, course content, placements, teaching arrangements, provision of information and examinations.
These materials are intended to assist staff in addressing these issues.
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