The DSO’s manifesto promises and priorities for 2018-19 concern the following campaigning areas:
- REDEFINING SUCCESS (x)
- Supporting an overhaul of the current process of distributing Student Support Documents
- Pushing inclusive teaching and learning throughout the university
- Collecting data that underlines the university’s failure to implement students’ reasonable adjustments, and holding them to account across the board
- Pushing for improvements in college and university practices regarding exam adjustments for disabled students
- Addressing ongoing issues in the intermission process, including re: funding
- Addressing issues with the ‘double-time’ study process
- Engaging with university education committees to input on innovation in assessment methods and practices
- Addressing issues with current policy re: ‘allowed to progress’ (previously known as ‘deemed to have deserved honours’
- FINANCIAL SUPPORT
- Collecting data on students’ experiences with having to fund their own medical evidence to access reasonable adjustments
- Pushing colleges towards best practice in paying for students’ medical evidence, in accordance with the Equality Act
- PHYSICAL ACCESSIBILITY
- Creating resources for students to make events and practices more accessible in their organising (x x)
- Pushing the university and colleges towards better accessibility and more comprehensive understanding (x)
- Creating ‘know your rights’ resources to equip students to push for better accessibility
- Improving the access statement generator and encouraging its use more widely
- DOES IT COUNT?
- WELFARE IS POLITICAL
- Running event series with the CUSU/GU Welfare & Rights Officer