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Enacting Disability Policy through Unseen Support: The Everyday Use of Disability Classifications by University Administrators
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Cox, Nigel – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
In the United Kingdom (UK), Higher Education Institutions share with other educational providers the duty to provide reasonable adjustments for students who disclose disabilities. The role of academic administrators in the operationalisation of legislation-driven policy related to disability within the university context is overlooked within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Disabilities, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Send for the Director of Compliance!
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Palfreyman, David – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2015
This article explores the possible impact (beyond the appointment of a Director of Compliance for HE managers) once the Higher Education Act 2016 has created OFTE--the Office for Tertiary Education Regulation. The article also focuses attention on the long-established consumer protection context for the operation of the student-university contract…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Higher Education, Educational Administration, Educational Malpractice
Revisioning Assessment through a Children's Rights Approach: Implications for Policy, Process and Practice
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Elwood, Jannette; Lundy, Laura – Research Papers in Education, 2010
The linkage between the impact of assessment and compliance with children's rights is a connection, which although seemingly obvious, is nonetheless rarely made, particularly by governments, which, as signatories to the relevant human rights treaties, have the primary responsibility for ensuring that educational practice is compatible with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Rights, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
In-House or in Court? Legal Challenges to University Decisions
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Kamvounias, Patty; Varnham, Sally – Education and the Law, 2006
Every day, decisions are made in universities that affect students. When a decision adversely affects a particular student, what means of redress does that student have? The circumstances in which a student has a legal claim against their university are generally unclear. Courts have traditionally tended to draw a distinction between "purely…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Court Litigation, Student Rights, College Students
Inclusive Education: A Framework for Change. National and International Perspectives.
Wertheimer, Alison – 1997
This booklet reports on the philosophy and demands of the growing international movement for inclusive schools which welcome all children, including those with disabilities or those who have learning difficulties. It maintains that inclusion is not primarily an educational or professional issue but, rather, an issue of basic human rights. It sees…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Childrens Rights, Civil Rights, Disabilities
The Inclusion Charter: Ending Segregation in Education for All Children and Young People with Disabilities and/or Learning Difficulties.
Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Bristol (England). – 1997
This charter of principles and beliefs was developed by the Centre for the Studies of Inclusive Education in the United Kingdom. Principles are first listed and then explained in detail. The principles are: (1) the end of all segregated education on the grounds of disability or learning difficulty as a policy commitment and national goal; (2) the…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Legislation