• Guidance Services: EVCFE provides counselling and other related supports including further educational advice/ choices. These services are provided at set times as agreed between the student and relevant staff member.

• Reasonable accommodation: This may include the provision of one or more of the following
  • Relevant assistive technology, equipment and/ software
  • Sign language usage
  • Rest periods
  • Scribes and/ readers
  • Practical assistants

Adopted presentation of assignment briefs, assignment answer formulations and examination papers

Compassionate Consideration: This involves students who due to exceptional personal circumstances have performed below par in any assessment undertaken or who was unable to complete any such assessment being allowed to at a later date. EVC makes its decision based on 4 criteria:

• The students previous academic/ personal record
• The character of the assessment to be undertaken
• The feasibility of such assessment being undertaken
• The nature of the extenuating circumstances, including supporting documentation/ medical certification

 

• EVCFE may consider the following instances as suitable for affording compassionate consideration
  • Death of a close family member or personal friend
  • Serious illness of an immediate family member
  • Extenuating physical injury/ profound emotional trauma having occurred within one month of a particular assessment
  • A physical incapacity/ condition of a chronic nature or otherwise causing a student’s disablement
  • A temporary mental incapacity/ condition

 

• FE students can apply for compassionate consideration using the following procedure
  • Completion of relevant compassionate consideration form with supporting documentation
  • Application to Deputy Principal of EVCFE in association with relevant staff member/ tutor
  • Decision made within 5 days of receipt of the application