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Welfare Reform Bill

As a disability contact person in the department of politics at the University of York, I have found that it is impossible even for the most sympathetic supervisor to know when their students are going through a bad phase. As a matter of policy, the university makes it the responsibility of the teachers, not the taught, to notice when their students are not doing well. The university has a whole department devoted to dealing with the problems that their students face. If intelligent, articulate students are not made responsible for saying that they have problems, and if it takes a good year for any of their problems to be dealt with, how can an adviser in one meeting be able to cope with problems which are not easily soluble?