Category: Disability
What the first National Disabled Staff Survey tells us
Disabled staff in UK universities are delivering a clear and urgent message: inclusion is still too often an aspiration rather […]
February 24, 2026
Universities need to get a grip on reasonable adjustments
Part of the problem in covering the annual Disabled Students UK Access Insights report is that I’ve written this article […]
January 29, 2026
Sleepwalking into criminal liability? Accessibility and the future of universities
If accessibility was being treated as an afterthought in higher education, then that ended in June 2025. The European Accessibility […]
January 23, 2026
Disability in universities is both everywhere and nowhere
In 2023/24, 18 per cent of students in UK higher education reported having a disability. By 2027, projections suggest this […]
January 8, 2026
Disability equality in higher education requires a joined-up and co-created approach
Despite more than two decades of legislation to establish equality in education for disabled and or diverse learners, disabled students […]
December 16, 2025
Why is it so difficult to make reasonable adjustments when assessing disabled PGRs?
Universities are required under the Equality Act 2010 to make reasonable adjustments for disabled students. While it’s often much clearer […]
December 5, 2025