Candidates with disabilities and chronic diseases who intend to take entrance examinations may ask for an assistance and advice at the Office for Persons with Disabilities.
Persons with disabilities who want to take up studies at the University of Warsaw may choose any course of study, according to their interests. The University does not set forth any limitations in a choice of a study course, that would result from a candidate's health condition.
Persons with disabilities - like all other candidates have to pass a qualification procedure suitable for their chosen study course.
The University does not introduce any concessions or exemptions from examinations for persons with disabilities, but a candidate may be sure that a form of examination would be adjusted for requirements resulting from his or her disability.
Detailed principles and mode of qualification for the disabled candidates for studies in an academic year 2006/2007 specify the following resolutions
Candidates blind and impaired in vision
A written part of an examination for them is conducted in Braille, in enlarged print or using a computer with a sound generating software. The duration of the examination is prolonged up to 50%.
Candidates deaf and hearing-impaired
In case of oral examinations an assistance of sign language translators is offered, or examinations are is conducted in a written form.
Candidates with hands disability
A change of a form of a written examination may be realized as its time prolongation, up to 50% and using a computer.
Candidates who use wheelchairs
Examinations will take place in rooms accessible rooms, free from architectural barriers. There exist a possibility to use a transport by adjusted busses provided by the University.
During entrance examinations candidates from outside Warsaw may use an accommodation in adjusted student hostels.
It is essential that candidates should contact our Office sufficiently ahead in time and deliver all the suitable documents, specifying their disease or disability. This is an indispensable requirement for the University to be able to provide you with all the conditions described above.
The University is not yet fully accessible for persons with all forms of disability, so we advise to contact the staff of our Office before making a final choice of a course of studies in order to obtain a detailed information.
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