The Disabled Student Commitment promises to be a huge step forward for disabled students. The commitment establishes a partnership approach to making progress on the key areas that frustrate the success of disabled students.
The purpose of the Disabled Student Commitment is to secure an enhanced and improved experience for disabled students within higher education. The commitment does not seek to replicate or replace legal duties but asks organisations to do more by focusing on how they can improve the disabled student experience. When universities sign up to it, the bedrock of their approach will be based on an assessment of current practice carried out with their disabled students.
The commitment asks universities to review their practice across the student journey, from open days and admission, to graduation and employability. This will be important in improving the four Cs for disabled students: certainty, consistency, communication, and choice.
