SDG 10: REDUCED INEQUALITIES

2025

10.6.7 Does your university as a body provide accessible facilities for people with disabilities?

Special Needs Facilitation

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Date: July 17, 2023

Special needs personals are being looked after in Ahlia University throughout preparing the necessary requirement to make them more comfortable during their existence in the Campus.

Such as:

• Lifts
• Special car parks
• Allocated toilets
• Elevators
• As well as special and recommended care are being provided from the security guards to them
• An assigned area to serve their electrical wheelchairs

SPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE AND FASCILITIES

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Facilities and support for special need students

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Ahlia University is equally inclusive to special needs students and non-special needs students. Students with special needs are welcomed to apply in all Ahlia University programmes. Admission of students with special needs is done through a special needs admission committee, which assess the potential of candidates to succeed in their chosen academic programme.

Special needs students are given support and guidance by Ahlia University faculty and staff, Directorate of Student Activities and Services and Directorate of Student Counselling. The university has a special needs committee that is responsible to pursue the welfare of all students with special needs.

In the case of undeclared special needs or in the case of a new development of any kind of special needs, the university's special needs committee, faculty and staff at Ahlia University will endeavour to identify the special needs and will support students and their needs.

Facilities

• Car Park: AU provides, where possible, special car parking slots for disabled students and students with special needs
• Bathrooms: AU provides suitable bathrooms for disabled students and students with special needs
• Entrances: AU provides suitable ramps on entrances as well as railings and elevator services (where appropriate) for disabled students and students with special needs
• Classrooms: Where needed, especially designed seating facilities in classrooms and labs are provided

AU will not provide a medical treatment for students with special needs. Rather, every effort will be made to provide these students with guidance to obtain medical treatment in public and private facilities in proximity to the University. The university has a full time nurse in the campus for any consultation and emergencies.

Classrooms and labs

• Assistive Devices: AU will allow students with special needs to use assistive devices in classrooms and labs and, where possible, will provide some supportive or adaptive devices that will help them learn better
• Support in classrooms and labs: AU will respond adequately to the kind of impairment that the special needs student The impairments could be physical (like visual impairment or hearing impairment) or mental such as certain disorders (autism or epilepsy or others)

Examinations

• Location and Duration of Exam: Where needed, the students with special needs will be provided with a separate location in a suitable environment to write the exam. Where necessary, additional exam time as appropriate will be provided for students with special needs to complete their exams
• At all times, discretion in dealing with students with special needs is observed; an example would be if there is tardiness on arrival or difficulty in reaching the exam room
• Where needed, we will provide necessary support for the student special needs to complete the exam and this support could be, for example, in the form of note-taking (or other)

Activities

Ahlia University strives to offer a healthy and enriching environment to support, guide, and encourage students with special needs to participate in general student activities within the university and/or beyond. We encourage all students to participate in local, regional, and international events that are designed to celebrate the achievements of all students in addition to events specifically designed for students with special needs.

TEACHING & ASSESSMENT

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Students are being taught using classic methods and latest technology by leading experts in the field of management information system. For example, Ahlia University YouTube channel include a review for Prof Mukhtar Al- Hashimi of the Business and finance research methods. The video link is made available to the students in Moodle. Other lecturers also provide their students with supporting materials and discussion through the university learning platform (Moodle).

Student's final project's can be added in this section. The MIS department will forward a number of final projects to be added in the website under this section and videos such as areas covering special needs students are available. At the moment the department is editing and working on a special need student in the MIS Department and is to be included in the programme page.

Policy for Supporting Students with Special Needs

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AU Application Form has a specific section for students to fill if they have any special needs support Special needs is an underrepresented group- Special needs students are given support and guidance by Ahlia University faculty and staff, Directorate of Student Activities and Services, and Directorate of Student Counselling. Further, a special needs committee was created to specifically look after the welfare of the students with special needs.

The student, after having been provisionally admitted to the University, will be interviewed by the special needs admission committee. If the Committee, by majority vote, determines that the University can accommodate the kind of disability or special need with which the student is encumbered, the student will be granted admission to the University. Thus, making it possible for the student to avail of all the privileges/benefits conferred to disabled students and students with special needs as contained herein.

Students with a disability or special need ought to disclose the nature of their disability on the AU admissions application form.

Any student who fails to notify the University

• Waives any right that would otherwise have been obtained as per to this policy
• If assessed, based on the Universities sole discretion, that accommodating the nature of the disability or special need is posing hardship or risk to the University, then the student in question may be subject to having his/her registration cancelled and admission annulled
• Should registration be cancelled, pursuant to "b" above, the students forfeits all fees and tuition having been paid to the University

If the Committee, by majority vote, determines that the University can accommodate the kind of disability or special need with which the student is encumbered, the student will be granted admission to the University, with a recognized disability or special need. Thus, making it possible for the student to avail of all the privileges/benefits conferred to disabled students and students with special needs as contained herein. If the Committee, by majority vote, determines that the student does not have cognizable disability or special need, then the student will be granted ordinary admission -- in which case the student cannot avail of all the privileges/benefits conferred to disabled students and students with special needs as contained herein.

Special Needs Requirements

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Ahlia University offers facilities for students with special needs, preparing the necessary requirements to make their presence on campus more comfortable, such as:

• special access
• elevators
• special car parks
• assigned bathrooms
• lifts
• area to serve electric wheelchairs

Ahlia University has spaces that are appropriate for people with disabilities such as special parking lots, ramps, elevators, etc. In addition to having these facilities, it also has specialized rooms for various subjects such as laboratories and special rooms.