Further sources of information
The following places may provide useful sources of further information on Diversity related issues.
Brookes regulations
- Oxford Brookes alternative assessment regulations www.brookes.ac.uk/services/asd/registry/exams/regulations.html
Brookes resources
- Student Disability Service – for advice and guidance on support available www.brookes.ac.uk/student/services/disability/, email disabilityservice@brookes.ac.uk or tel (48)4640
- School Equal Opportunities & Diversity Coordinator www.brookes.ac.uk/services/hr/eod/eodcs.html for list of co-ordinators
- Accessible assessments – staff guide to inclusive practice. www.shu.ac.uk/accessible assessments/
- Module leader’s handbook
- AV Services – for advice on availability and use of loops and microphones avhire@brookes.ac.uk Headington (48)3179; Wheatley (48)5865; Harcourt Hill 48(8382)
- Equal Opportunities & Diversity Manager – for advice on SENDA and the Disability Discrimination Bill www.brookes.ac.uk/services/hr/eod/ email eod@brookes.ac.uk or tel 48(5929)
- Dyslexia/Specific Learning Difficulties Support Team – provides advice, guidance through the assessment process. www.brookes.ac.uk/studetn/services/dyslexia email dyslex.sup@brookes.ac.uk
- Upgrade Study Advice Service – provides support for any student in study skills, maths or statistics. They provide one-to-one tutorials, drop-in sessions, and take-away advice. www.brookes.ac.uk/services/upgrade email upgrade@brookes.ac.uk
- Chaplaincy - sources of information on world faiths and religious festival calendar www.brookes.ac.uk/student/services/chaplaincy/world_faiths.htm
- Supporting students handbook www2.brookes.ac.uk/student/services/handbook/8disabilities.html
External resources
- Providing work placements for disabled students: a good practice guide for further and higher education institutions. DfES, 2003. www.lifelonglearning.co.uk/placements/placeme1.pdf
- Recruitment: proactive advertising. Employers’ Forum on Disability. 2005. www.employers-forum.co.uk/www/guests/info/factsheets/sheet7.htm
- Events for under-represented groups, including ethnic minorities, LGBT, female and disabled people to experience life in the City www.chancesevents.com/
- Targeted work placements for minority ethnic students in the Civil Service www.diversity.faststream.gov.uk/
- The Black and Asian Students and Graduates website www.blackandasiangrad.ac.uk/
- www.get.hobsons.co.uk/advice/equality
- TeacherWorld website for BME teachers www.teacherworld.org.uk/
- www.disabilitytoolkits.ac.uk/
- TechDis – advice on technology and disability www.techdis.ac.uk/
- The National Autistic Society www.nas.org.uk/
- Haddon, M (2003). The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. An interesting work of fiction which gives an insight into the viewpoint of a child with autism.
- Teachability web site promotes accessible curricula making available different publications. www.teachability.strath.ac.uk/
- ‘Accessible curricula: good practice for all’ www.techdis.ac.uk/resources/files/curricula.pdf
- British Dyslexia Association www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk
- Dyslexic.com – covers some of the available technology www.dyslexic.com
- Blankfield, S (2001) Thick, problematic and costly? The dyslexic student on work placement. SKILL Journal, issue 70, pp23-26. www.shef.ac.uk/~md1djw/HCP-disability/dyslexia/Papers/blankfield.pdf
- SKILL have an online staff dyslexia awareness module developed by Demos www.skill.org.uk/info/demos/dyslexia.asp
- National Working Party on Dyslexia in Higher Education (1999). Dyslexia in higher education: policy, provision and practice.
- RNIB – the leading organisation for advice on visual impairment www.rnib.org.uk