Petition: Against privatisation of UWA?s note-taking financial management: We, the undersigned, believe that privatising the financial management of an academic service such as note-taking for disabled students within a university is against:
1) academic integrity: removing the university from the management of the funds provided for the disable students means non-trusting the universities abilities and weakening them.
2) ethics: disability of students should not provide profits to a private company.
3) the financial health of the help provided: this privatisation will represent higher costs to the funding bodies (mainly Irish government), and thus potentially less help. We understood that the involved company, called Randstad/Select, will claim per hour including the
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