The Disabled Students’ Commission (DSC) welcomes the latest UCAS Next Steps: What is the experience of disabled students in education? report which focuses this time on the experiences of disabled students. Not only does this report have a wealth of insights into the current experiences of disabled students, it is one of the first sector reports which goes beyond the surface of summarising disabled students.
Excitingly, one of the first aspects of this report that stood out was the stepping away from the use of “disclosure” to describe individuals sharing their impairment type and personal circumstances, and instead more aptly describing the process as “sharing”. Alongside the revised UCAS application question for 2022-23, it is a cause for celebration that the sector continues to improve the culture and language used, improving trust (which the report does touch on) and building towards better conversations between disabled students and institutions.
