An online education provider has been accused of “blatant discrimination” after charging disabled students thousands of pounds more a year than non-disabled students for the same qualifications. The Cambridge-based Online College of Art and Design (OCAD) describes itself as the UK’s […]
Education
Failed by the SEND system: Five young disabled campaigners tell MPs government must ‘listen to our voices’
Mainstream is usually much cheaper, with ‘similar or better outcomes’ for disabled pupils, MPs are told
SEN improvements ‘could see tens of thousands more disabled children educated in mainstream schools’
Ofsted’s plans to reform inspections ‘will continue to enable discrimination’
Anger over government’s ‘gleeful’ announcement of yet more special schools
The government’s policy of opening more and more special schools is stripping funding from mainstream settings and handing it to profit-making bodies, disabled campaigners have warned. They said the government was allowing these organisations to make “huge profits” through the “institutionalisation […]