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2003 - 2005 special funding programme: Improving provision for disabled students

HEFCE published 'Improving provision for disabled students: HEFCE strategy and invitation to bid for funds for 2003-05' (HEFCE 02/21) in April 2002. Following a two stage bidding process, we funded 54 projects:

• Strand one
  31 projects to improve provision in small and/or specialist institutions with little provision for, or experience in supporting, students with disabilities. We distributed £2.68m in this strand.
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• Strand two
  23 projects to develop and disseminate resources relating to the learning and teaching of disabled students. Projects were expected to have a sector-wide impact and £2.8m was allocated to this strand.
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Projects were funded from January 2003 to December 2005.

HEFCE also supported a mapping exercise of resources related to the learning and teaching of disabled students, carried out by the Open University with Coventry University and the University of Dundee.

For further information from HEFCE please contact Sarah Howls on 0117 931 7073, e-mail s.howls@hefce.ac.uk or Alasdair Liddell on 0117 931 7312, e-mail a.liddell@hefce.ac.uk

Last updated 30 March 2006