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Non-medical support provided through the disabled students’ allowance (DSA) system can play an important role in the ability of young disabled people to succeed at university, according to research commissioned by the government. Non-medical help (NMH) available through DSA offers regular, […]
Scores of disabled students are to demonstrate next week in protest at their university’s “discriminatory” decision to secretly introduce cuts to their support. They say the University of Derby has removed the entitlement to support from many of the disabled students […]
The government is threatening to make sweeping changes to the system of support for disabled students in higher education, which would remove many individual payments and transfer further responsibility onto universities. The plans would mean that many disabled students would no […]
A significant proportion of disabled students are being told by university staff that their access needs are a nuisance or unreasonable, or even that they are trying to cheat the system by asking for adjustments, according to a groundbreaking survey. One […]
Only a third of disabled postgraduate doctoral students receive the support they need to study on an equal footing with their non-disabled colleagues, new research has revealed. The report also found that nearly nine in 10 (86 per cent) of the […]
A Deaf student could be forced to leave the country and return to the United States after a university refused to provide them with the sign language interpreters they need for their course. The University of Brighton has told postgraduate student […]
A disabled student has won the right to challenge efforts by ministers to prevent him and thousands of others in his situation from claiming universal credit while they are studying. Flinn Kays argues that many disabled students should be entitled to […]
A government department has sent warning letters to companies that provide goods and services to disabled students, after receiving allegations of price-fixing. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has sent “advisory letters” to “a number of firms” reminding them of their […]
A disabled students’ organisation has called for strict new rules on access to higher education, and – as a last resort – for universities to lose their licence to operate if they fail to meet them. Disabled Students UK (DSUK), a […]
Disabled students have launched a new campaign aimed at convincing their university to address the discrimination they face on campus. They say the University of Exeter (pictured) is plagued by access barriers and a failure to provide reasonable adjustments under the […]