Presentation
The session will share UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services recent approach and success with a migration of reasonable academic adjustments, including the categorisation and mapping of reasonable adjustments to standardise this work, to an appropriate extent.
Across the higher education sector, we observe yearly positive increases of reasonable academic adjustment requests. However, this increase can be perceived as a burden on academics and professional services staff.
Steering a culture that moves towards inclusivity is vital in alleviating a real burden for our staff, and importantly, the administrative burden placed on disabled students. Adjustments for disabled students will inevitably support all students, creating a greater sense of belonging. At the time of writing, we have over 8000 reasonable academic adjustment plans. How do we manage this number, while ensuring that all our disabled students feel heard and seen? We will share relevant data on the percentage of more nuanced reasonable academic adjustments, how we have debunked myths on "complex" reasonable adjustments and why our standardisation is not a "one-size-fits-all" approach.