{"id":20477,"date":"2019-08-29T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T13:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20477"},"modified":"2019-08-29T13:14:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T13:14:57","slug":"glasgow-blind-student-cries-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/glasgow-blind-student-cries-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow blind student cries discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gary Copland, a considerably visually-impaired student at the University of Glasgow, declares that he is afraid of failing his final exam based on discrimination.\u00a0<\/b>
\nExpressly, he asserts that this institution did not provide him with available books. Moreover, he was marked down by the University because he cited very few sources, a consequence of the lack of assistance for his condition<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b>
\nCopland stipulated that he was provided with low exam support, despite the university\u2019s commitment to offering equal opportunities to all learners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Copland\u2019s law course at Glasgow<\/b><\/h2>\n

Copland has proclaimed that the experience he has had at Glasgow was not pleasant as he struggled in his law course. He stated that his studies faced significant barriers and misunderstandings. As a result, anxiety, and stress were inevitable.<\/b>
\nCopland affirmed that he was a victim of considerable delays and repetitive failures because he did not have access to course texts in his four years at the institution.\u00a0<\/span>
\nPrecisely, he claimed that during his first year at Glasgow, he was given only one (1) out of six hundred (600) needed texts, and this was in a digital format. This proved challenging because he was forced to have two exams retaken.\u00a0<\/b>
\nCopland also noted that a similar trend is being experienced in his present fourth year because the only accessible versions he has received are just three percent (3%) of what is required.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Glasgow\u2019s disadvantageous approach<\/b><\/h2>\n

Copland also has autism, and he noted that Glasgow\u2019s “biased” approach has placed him in a disadvantageous position during exams.\u00a0<\/b>
\nFor instance, at times, tests got halted based on technical challenges. Additionally, exams could last for at least five (5) hours with the absence of screen breaks.
\nCopland affirms that this approach was biased, and this is the reason why he performed poorly. He had also requested Glasgow University to consider some of his experiences so that amicable changes could be made, but his quest was ignored.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe accessibility of reading materials is one of the problems that Copland notes. However, Glasgow University is not keen on having it addressed.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nCopland\u2019s case correlates with<\/span> a 2018 study carried out in the UK showing disabled students were ten percent (10%)<\/span><\/a> more likely of having lower educational prospects compared to their non-disabled counterparts.\u00a0<\/span>
\nSad to say, public schools share the same fate as they are strapped by cash deficits<\/a> to provide the necessary assistance to learners with special education needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gary Copland, a considerably visually-impaired student at the University of Glasgow, declares that he is afraid of failing his final exam based on discrimination.\u00a0 Expressly, he asserts that this institution did not provide him with available books. Moreover, he was marked down by the University because he cited very few sources, a consequence of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":20478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}