Unlocking Potential on #ATAwarenessDay 🌟

Technology has changed how we learn and work. In both education and the workplace, #AssistiveTechnology is helping people to realize their true potential.

Discover the broad impact of assistive tools in our blog: texthelp.com/resources/blog…

Dunno why it never occurred to me but in Lord of the Rings right in the centre of this mythical medieval land of wizards, dragons, elves & Dwarfs there’s this incongruous 1930s English village where people wear tweed jackets, waistcoats, drink tea from kettles and own clocks.

A single baked bean.

Interesting take - apart from the main guy obviously, The Mist actually has an objectively happy ending.

Killer whales really are nature’s bastards! #mammals

Looking to this new film ‘Hull Civil War’

Remember when Tories and Daily Mail used to be outraged when the press reported on John Major’s living arrangements?

Universities in Crisis: a Yorkshire Post special

VCs across the county are calling upon Government to intervene urgently, or the sector faces ruinous collapse

On Wonk Corner: Time to stop being reasonable on reasonable adjustment failure wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/ti…

If you have a disabled family member at uni or thinking about uni, please read this

Strong parallels with what’s driving the DfE’s proposed changes to SEND policy for schools and colleges

‘the prevailing tenor of political and media debate has been to hector universities: “Behave like a market! No, not like that!” Time & again, governments have been astonished by the unintended – though widely predicted – consequences of their legislation.’ newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Today on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast there’s a call for evidence on abolishing part of the Disabled Students Allowance wonkhe.com/blogs/podcast-…

Are you a member of academic teaching staff at a university where arts/culture courses are being cut? Would like to hear from you. Drop me an email summarising what's being cut, impact & a contact number & will try to get back to you. Drop me a line at: [email protected]
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The government is killing humanities in higher education. And in doing so gutting the entire sector. For no reason! But you know, great to see that concerted push back from all those brave, idealistic HE leaders across the UK really doing their bit to save our education system!

If you’re looking at universities with offspring, particularly if there is autism, adhd, dyslexia in the mix, please read their mitigating circumstances/extenuating circumstances policies in full, don’t just ask if reasonable adjustments apply.

Yep. And check, carefully, what evidence is required to support mitigating circumstances, and whether mitigating circumstances is the only way to access some adjustments, such as extensions. It will tell you a lot about attitudes towards disabled students/inclusion.

*Deeeep Sigh* Bridges between me and work are all in a serious state of decrepitude. Ouse Bridge is still squeezing traffic over it as though we’re the dregs at the end of a tube of toothpaste and now this. That’s it, I now live in my car!

We’re pretty much heading into a situation in which we have a generation of young people actively discouraged from accessing the same level of education as their parents, and with fewer options for any form of upward social mobility. And by design, none of this is an accident.

NEW on Wonkhe: Now DfE proposes to scrap Disabled Students Allowance wonkhe.com/blogs/now-dfe-…

NEW on Wonkhe: The government is proposing to abolish a central funding allowance that allows disabled students to access specialist nonmedical support. Jim Dickinson explains the justification Jim Dickinson wonkhe.com/blogs/now-dfe-…