The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Amendment) (Further and Higher Education) Regulations 2006

Discrimination against disabled students and prospective students, and harassment

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

5.  The following subsections are inserted after subsection (3) of section 28R (discrimination against disabled students and prospective students)—

(3A) It is unlawful for the body responsible for an educational institution to discriminate against a disabled person—

(a)in the arrangements which it makes for the purpose of determining upon whom to confer a qualification;

(b)in the terms on which it is prepared to confer a qualification on him;

(c)by refusing or deliberately omitting to grant any application by him for a qualification; or

(d)by withdrawing a qualification from him or varying the terms on which he holds it.

(3B) It is unlawful for the body responsible for an educational institution to subject to harassment a disabled person who—

(a)holds or applies for a qualification conferred by the institution;

(b)is a student at the institution; or

(c)seeks admission as a student to the institution..