disability will cause disability, make impossible, or have a seriously detrimental difficulty? effect on, the provision by an educational establishment of its services to other students. The wording here is quite strong “impossible or have a seriously detrimental effect” and therefore I feel that it would not be possible to exclude a student from entry merely because it will cause difficulty, whether this is prior to or post-registration. The defence of impossibility or serious detrimental effect to any action brought under the Equal Status Acts 2000 – 2008 is only in relation to individual students and cannot be used to exclude, for example, all students with a specific disability from a particular course of study. Students are Once a student has disclosed evidence of their disability to the asked to provide Disability Service, this should be sufficient for the relevant evidence each time departments which are requested to provide reasonable they apply for accommodation. reasonable accommodation related to their disability, when evidence is on file in Disability Services, is this reasonable? Can students be Section 6(1) of the 2000 Act provides that there shall be no excluded from rooms discrimination in providing accommodation or any services or based on lack of amenities related to accommodation or ceasing to provide independent living accommodation or any such services or amenities. This relates skills? to the provision of accommodation only. Accommodation must not be withheld on the basis of disability but neither must the College take responsibility to support students who are unable to engage in independent living. If assisted living was something that was already being provided by College then the situation would be drastically different. However, in this case the College must only ensure that persons suffering from a disability are given the same access to accommodation as other students with consideration given to the particular disability of any given student. The engagement of Carers to maintain the student once he/she is residing in the accommodation must ultimately fall to the student himself /herself. Is it reasonable This falls within the ambit of section 7(2)(b) of the Equal Status for academics to refuse Act, 2000 which provides that an educational establishment to give notes in cannot discriminate in relation to the access of a student to advance or to refuse a any course, facility or benefit provided by the establishment.
disability will cause difficulty? disability, make impossible, or have a seriously detrimental effect on, the provision by an educational establishment of its services to other students. The wording here is quite strong “impossible or have a seriously detrimental effect” and therefore I feel that it would not be possible to exclude a student from entry merely because it will cause difficulty, whether this is prior to or post-registration. The defence of impossibility or serious detrimental effect to any action brought under the Equal Status Acts 2000 – 2008 is only in relation to individual students and cannot be used to exclude, for example, all students with a specific disability from a particular course of study. Students are asked to provide evidence each time they apply for reasonable accommodation related to their disability, when evidence is on file in Disability Services, is this reasonable? Once a student has disclosed evidence of their disability to the Disability Service, this should be sufficient for the relevant departments which are requested to provide reasonable accommodation. Can students be excluded from rooms based on lack of independent living skills? Section 6(1) of the 2000 Act provides that there shall be no discrimination in providing accommodation or any services or amenities related to accommodation or ceasing to provide accommodation or any such services or amenities. This relates to the provision of accommodation only. Accommodation must not be withheld on the basis of disability but neither must the College take responsibility to support students who are unable to engage in independent living. If assisted living was something that was already being provided by College then the situation would be drastically different. However, in this case the College must only ensure that persons suffering from a disability are given the same access to accommodation as other students with consideration given to the particular disability of any given student. The engagement of Carers to maintain the student once he/she is residing in the accommodation must ultimately fall to the student himself /herself. Is it reasonable for academics to refuse to give notes in advance or to refuse a This falls within the ambit of section 7(2)(b) of the Equal Status Act, 2000 which provides that an educational establishment cannot discriminate in relation to the access of a student to any course, facility or benefit provided by the establishment.
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