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Skill's Annual Higher Education Conference
Students with unseen impairments and employability
This annual event updates UK staff in higher education on policy and practice in relation to planning and delivering services for disabled students. The key themes to be covered in the conference include students with hidden impairments/disabilities and employability. Other issues to be covered will be the Equality Bill and the HEFCE review.
Speakers include:
- Professor Sally Brown, Leeds Metropolitan University
- Margaret Dane, Chief Executive, AGCAS
- Sarah Howls, Head of Widening Participation, HEFCE - invited speaker
Workshops include:
- QAA's Code of practice: requirements for staff development
- How can e-mentoring and online resources help you address issues around access, student finance and retention?
- Reasonable adjustments - developing tools to influence decision making
- What is an inclusive higher education institution?
- REAL services model and the Asperger syndrome development project at University of Cambridge
- The deaf student's journey (changing terrains - a walk in the park or a gruelling trek?)
- Sensory access in higher education
- Access to Work
