Topic briefing
Published 27 July 2020
Disabled students
Published 27 July 2020
Resources
OfS resources
- Challenge Competition: Achieving a step change in mental health outcomes for all students
- Guidance on funding for disabled students
- Access and participation data dashboard
- Student characteristics data
- Coronavirus briefing note: Disabled students (June 2020)
- Coronavirus case studies: Disabled students (July 2020)
- Insight brief: Beyond the bare minimum: Are universities and colleges doing enough for disabled students? (October 2019)
- A disabled students’ insight: Contextualising statistics, October 2019 blog by Piers Wilkinson, former Disabled Students’ Officer at the National Union of Students
Data
- Higher Education Statistics Agency disability categories for 2018-19
- Equality Challenge Unit: Equality in higher education: statistical report 2018 (September 2018)
Inclusive practice
- Information about the Disabled Students’ Commission - an independent and strategic group which was established for a three-year period by the Universities Minister in 2020. It was set up to advise, inform and influence higher education providers to improve support for disabled students. Its publications and resources include:
- The Disabled Student Commitment (April 2023)
- Considerations for disabled applicants applying to undergraduate courses (January 2021)
- Annual Report 2020-21: Enhancing the disabled student experience (January 2021)
- Three months to make a difference (July 2020)
- London South Bank University: Supporting students who stammer in higher education (2021)
- Institute for Employment Studies' report for the OfS: Review of support for disabled students in higher education in England (published alongside our Insight brief in October 2019)
- University of Bristol: Getting things changed (May 2018)
- Higher Education Funding Council for England: Models of support for students with disabilities (October 2017)
- Disabled Students’ Sector Leadership Group: Inclusive teaching and learning in higher education as a route to excellence (January 2017)
Mental health
- Universities UK and Papyrus guide: Suicide – safer universities (September 2018)
- Universities UK: Stepchange: mentally healthy universities (May 2020)
- Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) guidance: Not by degrees: Improving student mental health in the UK’s universities (September 2017)
- Student Minds website
- Student Minds mental health charter
Published 27 July 2020
Last updated 24 April 2023 + show all updates
Last updated 24 April 2023 + show all updates
24 April 2023 - Added new resource: Disabled Students' Commission - The Disabled Student Commitment
17 December 2021 - Resource added
18 June 2021 - London South Bank University resource added
05 February 2021 - Inclusive practice resources added
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