Source material: references specific to competence standards:
This section contains the source materials we drew on when creating this toolkit and its elements. We gratefully acknowledge the work of the authors, and encourage you to take a look:
Abrahart, Duncan (2024) ‘How to become competent over competence standards’, (WonkHE) (accessed 19.05.25).
Advance HE et al. (2025) Disabled Student Commitment: Competence Standards Guidance
Equality and Human Rights Commission (2024) 'Advice note for the higher education sector from the legal case of University of Bristol vs Abrahart' (accessed 23.05.25).
The Equality Act 2010, Schedule 13 – Education: Reasonable Adjustments (accessed 19.05.25).
Additional resources:
These additional resources may support you in delivering an equitable curriculum, particularly, but not exclusively, when considering assessment. It’s important to remember that, while a competence standard cannot be adjusted, the mode of assessment can and should be if necessary. Designing inclusively aims to avoid the need for reasonable adjustment.
Blundell & Evans, et al. Inclusive Curriculum Toolkit (Centre for Innovation in Education, University of Liverpool). (Accessed 19.05.25).
Cheetham & Evans (2022), Designing inclusive and accessible assessments: A step-by-step guide (Centre for Innovation in Education, University of Liverpool) (accessed 19.05.25).
The University of Liverpool’s Code of Practice on Assessment (CoPA): Appendix K – Policy on Adjustments to Examination and Assessment Arrangements for Disabled Students, and Appendix K, Annexe 1 – Guidelines for Appropriate Marking and Feedback for Students with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs)) (accessed 19.05.25).
Competence Standards Toolkit by Dr Kate Evans and Jon Petch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.