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The National Disability Team (NDT) provides support on behalf of the HEFCE/DEL for a special funding programme, "Improving Provision For Disabled Students, (1999-2000 and 2000-2002)."
The programme funds fifty projects within three broad strands.
There are:
Twenty-nine projects where the institutions have self-identified themselves as having very little services for, or experience of, disabled students and are developing "base-line" provision.
Eight projects working to transfer and promote good practice, products or programmes to a wide range of staff (academic, estates, library and careers) in other institutions.
Thirteen projects developing collaborative resources, expertise and practice in an area, region or between neighbouring institutions, frequently with partners in further education.
The team is committed to addressing the wider challenge of extending good practice in relation to disability to all HEIs and encouraging the inclusion of disability issues in the mainstream activities of all higher education institutions.
The major aims of the NDT are:
Mike Adams is the Director of the NDT.
Mike has extensive experience including the wider context of disability issues and higher education developments, managing disability-related change in higher education both within and between institutions, national co-ordination work, advising national higher education committees, dissemination activities across the sector and disability-related curriculum development.
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