The Equality Challenge Unit supports the higher education sector in its mission to realise the potential of all staff and students whatever their race, gender, disabilty, sexual orientation, religion or age, to the benefit of these individuals, higher education institutions and society.
Developing curricula for disabled students
Legislative context: current legal position; disclosure and confidentiality; disabilty equality duty. Admissions & induction, programme design & validation, lectures, practical sessions, groupwork, elearning & distance learning, work placements fieldtrips & study abroad, assessment, retention, progression & transission, employability: legislative guidance, equality issues, inclusive practice, references and further support for each section
A report on a programme which aims to facilitate the development and embedding of inclusive policies and practices to enhance widening participation and disability equality to improve the learning experience of students from under represented groups.
This web-based resource aims to enable teachers and trainers to ensure that disabled learners are fully integrated into adult education by advising teachers/trainers and quality assurance staff on inclusive teaching/training and assessment strategies.
SCIPS is a resource primarily for teachers and trainers. It offers strategies for promoting inclusive teaching, learning and assessment within programmes of study taught at degree level (including foundation degrees). By 'inclusive' we mean flexible academic practices that aim to meet the needs of all learners.
Code of practice for the assurance of academic
quality and standards in higher education
Section 3: Disabled students -
February 2010