DEMOS Project - Module: Admissions

Module : Admissions : Learning activity

Learning Activity

How might we change the UCAS categories so that they focus on support mechanisms that might be implemented by the university? Can you think of 10 categories of support that a university might need to consider and that universities could plan services around?

If you require further examples you can look at the following website which discusses the educational support for people with various impairments:

Here is our suggestion for the first two categories. You might think of something different :

0. does not require any support or adaptations.
1. additional support in the library (extended loan period, electronic access to information etc.)

When you have decided on 10 categories go to the next page where we have suggested 10 categories of support.

N.B. : The categories of impairment have been reviewed recently by UCAS but they are unlikely to make the changes that we suggest here. The exercise is designed to raise the issue of why we collect such information, to suggest an approach that fits into the social model of disability and to ask you to think about what relevant information is required by the institution from disabled applicants.

(Next page: Suggested answers.)

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