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Written ministerial statement 12 september 2014

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WRITTEN MINISTERIAL STATEMENT
RT HON GREG CLARK, MINISTER OF STATE FOR UNIVERSITIES, SCIENCE AND
CITIES; DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS
STUDENT SUPPORT
12 SEPTEMBER 2014

.... we have agreed to give Higher Education Institutions until the beginning
of the 2016/17 academic year to develop appropriate mechanisms to fully deliver
their statutory duty to provide reasonable adjustments, in particular non-medical help, and to improve the processes by which disabled students can appeal against a
Higher Education Institution’s decision that an adjustment would not be reasonable.
We will explore how this might be supported in institutions’ Access Agreements with
the Office for Fair Access for 2016/17.

For the academic year 2015/16, we will continue to provide Disabled Students’
Allowance funding to help with the additional cost of a computer and assistive
software if needed solely because of the student’s impairment. This will be subject to
the student contributing the first £200 of the computer’s cost – broadly equivalent to
the cost of a basic computer. For future academic years we will explore a bulk
purchasing scheme for such computers to keep costs down.

Additional items such as printers and consumables will not be automatically
provided, with alternative provision in the form of university provided services such
as printing services and books and journals in electronic format to be considered as
alternatives.

Funding will remain available towards the additional costs of specialised
accommodation for disabled students, other than where the accommodation is
provided by the institution or an agent of the institution.

full text: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-vote-office/September%202014/12%20September/2-BIS-StudentSupport.pdf

Reply 1

Klix88

Excellent news. The changes certainly needed more time to organise at the unis' end of the service. The changes to the computing provision is probably about right these days.