DEMOS Project - Module: Admissions

Aims

To outline the current system for classifying disabled applicants in higher education.
To suggest ways of making admissions related information accessible to disabled applicants.
To introduce procedures for processing applications from disabled people.
To propose a system of identifying disability using a social model approach.
To introduce ways of identifying support arrangements for disabled students at the pre-entry stage.
To introduce legislation that relates to disabled applicants.

List the UCAS categories for identifying disabled applicants.
Find information about your university relating to disabled applicants.
Compare a proposed model for processing disabled applicants with the procedure in your university.
Devise a list of support arrangements that could be used as a means of categorising disabled students.
Devise a set of questions that could be used at the admissions stage to discuss support arrangements with disabled applicants.
Identify how the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001) and the Quality Assurance Agency's (QAA) Code of Practice for Students with Disabilities may relate to disabled applicants.
Compare a proposed model for processing disabled applicants with the procedure in your university.