A presentation from the HEA's Research Conference: Promoting Equity in Higher Education 2010.
The Disability Right Commission (2004) requires employers to eliminate discrimination. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (2004; 2008a; 2008b) also require programme providers to support all students and provide evidence of how disabled students would be supported in clinical and academic settings.
This paper gives an overview of the preliminary findings of a qualitative study which explored the experiences and needs of 15 non-dyslexic and seven dyslexic nursing and midwifery students of their personal academic tutor support and how those needs could be met. Research ethics approval was gained from the university and participants gave informed consent. Following one-to-one face-to-face tape recorded interviews data was transcribed and analysed using the constant comparative method.
