How do tertiary organisations use the toolkit?

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It is important for tertiary education organisations to work with disabled learners when they:

  • plan activities from the toolkit
  • run these activities.

A document labelled 'Disability Action Plan'.

It’s also important for tertiary education organisations to work with disabled learners when they write their Disability Action Plans.

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Disability Action Plans explain how tertiary education organisations can be more inclusive.

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And it’s also important for tertiary education organisations to work with other groups of people to be more inclusive.

This includes:

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  • Māori learners

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  • Pacific learners

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  • learners from other countries.

The toolkit supports tertiary education organisations to:

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  • make a Disability Action Plan

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  • work out what stops disabled learners from taking part in tertiary education

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  • support disabled learners to work towards their learning goals.

The toolkit also helps tertiary education organisations understand:

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  • what disabled learners experience when they take part in tertiary education

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  • policies and laws about disabled learners in tertiary education.

A policy document.

A policy is a plan for how we should do things.

Policies are where rules come from.