Liberal Democrat Conference: Plea for students
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS called for a package of measures to improve state help to disabled students, voting overwhelmingly for a demand to extend the disabled students allowance for full-time students to part-time students.
They supported proposals to boost Research Council funding for postgraduate study for disabled students, and for legislation on disabled access to cover educational institutions.
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