ABSTRACT
This chapter examines two distinct but interrelated matters concerned with disability and the initial and continuing professional development of staff. It looks at issues about the development of training opportunities for the sector and explains what is happening in one institution, the University of Central Lancashire. The kinds of services offered to students include: advising about learning support strategies, proposing modifications to assessment regimes, managing staff, working with other agencies, developing policies and provision, raising disability awareness, and initiating and participating in staff training. Skill's Higher Education Working Party is composed of colleagues from institutions throughout the United Kingdom who are regarded as being at the leading edge of policy and provision. The decision to exclude education met with opposition from many sources, including Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities. The organisation and delivery of the modules does vary but underpinning everything is recognition that the programme is aimed at a national rather than a local market.
