Commissioner for university employees with impairment

First find out which examination requirements are set for you in which module in your degree programme. To do this, you should look in the module manual and/or in the study and examination regulations for your degree programme to see which form of examination is intended for which module. If it is not clear to you whether the respective examination form poses a difficulty for you due to your restriction, I would recommend that you talk to the respective examiner or to the subject advisory service.

If you expect difficulties in taking individual examinations due to your impairment(s) (after that, if applicable), you can apply for a disadvantage compensation in the attached application form. In the personal statement of reasons for your application for compensation, you should be specific enough about the impairment(s) to make it plausible for the examination committee that you have barriers to mastering the planned examination performances and what these barriers are. You must also provide evidence of the impairment(s) by means of medical or therapeutic certificates.

In addition, you should request as concrete measures as possible to compensate for your disadvantage and specify which exam(s) in which module(s) are involved. There are many ways to compensate for a disadvantage, see the description on the website of the German Student Union. It is important that the measure is suitable and necessary in the individual case to compensate for your individual disadvantage. It would be helpful if the medical or therapeutic certificate(s) submitted contained recommendations as to how your disadvantage(s) could be compensated for from a medical-therapeutic point of view. However, the decision-making authority lies with the examination board, which must also take into account in its decision that the measure to compensate for your disadvantage does not at the same time violate the equal opportunities of the other examinees according to Article 3 of the Basic Law.

You then send the completed application together with the evidence regarding your impairment either by post or – waiving postal secrecy - by e-mail together with the scanned evidence and with the completed declaration of consent for data processing on the attached form to me (see § 2 para. 5 of the Framework Regulations). I will then forward the application with a statement to the responsible examination board. However, this is only possible with the completed declaration of consent, without which I may not store your data. In order to be able to forward your application together with my statement to the examination board of your department, I also need a release from the duty of confidentiality and therefore ask that you tick this accordingly in the consent form. Otherwise, I will not be allowed to forward your application.

In my statement, I will address the following,

• whether, in my opinion, an impairment has been comprehensibly explained in the personal statement of reasons and supported by appropriate certificates, findings or attestations,
• whether a disability is comprehensible due to the barriers of the study programme or the specific examination, and
• whether the requested measures or which measures are suitable to compensate for this disability.

The certificates and findings you enclose as supporting documents remain confidential with me and I only include in my statement what is directly relevant to the three above-mentioned topics.

The examination board will then discuss your application and inform you of the decision directly. If, in the opinion of the examination board, something is still missing, e.g. a medical certificate or similar, it will inform you and ask you to submit it.