Thanks a lot for that Barbra. Much appreciated. Indeed the OU told me yesterday that hey could not have a blind student on the Panel as the student they approached knows ab out my case though I must emphasis I have only correspnded with one blind person on the matter and did not give said person much info so all the person knows must have been obtained fro th Internet.
Eleanor----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Wilson" <barkingbabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I don't know Eleanor where they took their degrees. I was merely trying topoint out that if you make a sweeping statement like that you really shouldhave some facts to back it up. And if you are going through disciplinary proceedings with the OU it is all the more important not to make remarks like that without evidence as anyone searching the Internet can find and read your Emails. Good luck. Find me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/barkingbabs Barbara Wilson M: 07917710779 T: 02887784046 E: barkingbabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx IM: creativeeyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Skype: creativeeyes----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 12:05 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officersi do too but the ones I know did not get their qualification through the Open University. Did the ones you know qualify through the OU? -original message- Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers From: "Barbara Wilson" <barkingbabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 30/07/2009 10:33 pm Eleanor, this is a very sweeping statement, do you have stats to back it up? I know blind people with law degrees. Find me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/barkingbabs Barbara Wilson M: 07917710779 T: 02887784046 E: barkingbabs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx IM: creativeeyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Skype: creativeeyes----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:37 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officersI actually believe that they will not pass a blind student in law. They keep failing me in exams amd I an doing very well in assignments each year. One year I got 40 per cent in the exam amd 72 in the assessments amd they failed me with these grades even though my Invigilator sent in a long report about my guide dog being very ill in the exam. -original message- Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers From: "martin wilsher" <m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 30/07/2009 8:05 pm Dear Elenor: This strikes me as if they do not want a blind student on their books, I too, had a very similar issue with a college, I was told, you want accessibility? Get lost. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke Sent: 30 July 2009 07:53 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers I did. She told me that there was no way she would write on my behalf. This sounds rather harsh on her point. I showed her the letter in which the university made very serious allegations against me. I can assure everyonehere that the allegations are untrue but my NP said to me, there you are,it is all clearly stated why you have been thrown out. I do not seen to be able to get across to people that I an currently thrown out amd not one staff member of the Open University has picked up a telephone to ask me what I have to say in my defence. I an having to wait until 1 September to do this.I live in London. The Open University has a regional centre in London, in Camden where I live amd yet as a blind student I have to travel to Milton Keynes for the meeting. Now do not tell me that stinks too. I believe allthose who are going to sit on the panel must be more severely disabled than myself. They have offered me that I can attend the meeting by telephone but that would not beat all acceptable to me though if they wanted to arrange a video link-upat my home I might give that some consideration. Still not satisfactory as I can call witnesses etc so ideally I would like to be in the same room as everyone. I do not want to be an invisable blind student, a voice on a telephone line. Disgusting insult. -original message- Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers From: "martin wilsher" <m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 30/07/2009 7:34 pm Elinor, go to your mp with this. This is, in the face of it, clear discrinimation. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke Sent: 30 July 2009 07:08 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers I an very interested in this discussion on difficulty with access to employment for disabled people. As a disabled student at the Open University people might be interested to know that I was suspended from the university on 17 July 2009 amd effectively thrown out. Did I get a Hearing? Certainly not! I got a letter throwing me out. I also got a letter from the RegionalDirector of the Open University in London who gave me a final warning amdcut off my access to communication with Open University law students. Where was the prior warnings? There were none. This person is going through my file with the aim of dicipling me. All of this flies in the face of natural justice. My offences are as follows: I want to know the number of students who have sat 50 per cent of the third level law course W 300 since its inception 9 years ago. I want to know why Special Arrangements were not made for me as a disabled student in the last course I did in 2008 which I failed despite having done very well throughout the assessments over the year. I an firmly of the opinion that the university threw me out because they wanted to silence me on the issue of 50 per cent re-sit of an examination. Idiscovered that students had been allowed to do this which was hush hush.I an not now going to be able to sit an exam amd pass it this year as I an currently out amd the way the Open University works is that assignments have to be put in every month. My next one is due on 12 August but I will still be out! I have Appealed to the Senate of the University for lifting of my suspension. Meeting not until 1 September. There are going to be 2 students on the panel. I wrote today saying that one of these students should be blind, female amd the same age as myself. What do others feel? In terms of information technology I communicate with fellow students over theuniversity website but they have stopped me being able to do this. I havebeen unregistered amd isolated. I an a disabled student amd thrown out amdnot one staff member within the university has given me an opportunity tospeak. So from 17 July until 1 September I an being punished without a hearing amd my chance of doing amd passing my course this year are gone. I managed to obtain my course material electronically but only after much ado amd a written apology from the university. Someone wrote to the university on my behalf about the course material in alternative format. This was before I managed to get the material in alt ernative format. The universitywrote back to this Professor telling him that 2 senior members of the lawfaculty visited me in my home! I had to get the Open University to writeback to the Professor to say the information that 2 staff members visitedme in my home was not true. A total case of discrimination. I can assure everyone that I have not had gross misconduct which I have been temporarilyif not permanently removed for from the university. There is no guaranteethat my suspension will be lifted. -original message- Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers From: "martin wilsher" <m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 30/07/2009 6:04 pm HIBarbra and all.I am in a similar situation to will, and have gone for job interviews andalso have gone on govt schemes to help get into work. Now let me relay aa few stories. I went on the new deal for disabled people. The DEA basically threw me at employers and said, the law says you cannot discriminate, so employ him. Most employers were enthusiastic until they actually had to do soemthing to help me over and above their usual, then they binned me, after about three days in one case. Then I went on another scheme that afbp told me was accessible to blind. Turned out they weren't, and that they were in it for the EU money. I went in dressed in a suit, with laptop, copy of jaws on pendrive, for SATOGO and SA weren't known to me then, and with NRA in hand. I was first asked, where's your carer, then when I told them I'dlived on my own for years, they dropped that question. I explained aboutjaws for windows, and about what it was. They wouldn't let me install it.In the end, I had to jobsearch with my own computer. They could not evenmake the course amterials in accessible format. About the only thing this place did was give me funding to do voluntary work with a riding stable. Now they were meant to come to the stable to check I was actually doing the work, and did they? No. They were meant to get in touch with my boss, but tdid they? No. I spent six mmonths doing my part of the thing, while they did nothing. This was another govt scheme btw, and at one point, they triedto claim that giving me an ethernet cable to allow me to connect to theirintrnet was accessibily, and they'd complied with the Dda because of this. Hmm, no. AFBP blew hot air at this company, but that was it. And yes, this was new labour. I am going for an nvq this september, and I wonder if AFBP will help me if I get into trouble with access? 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