Government cuts to Disabled Students’ Allowances must be resisted

Abstract

Cuts to essential grant funding for disabled students in England will put disabled students’ studies at risk. Proposed cuts to Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) in 2015 will redefine disability and damage the validity of equality indicators. As a result, the needs of many disabled students may be systematically overlooked, leading to unequal outcomes for students, academia and wider society.

Keywords:

• higher education
• disabled students
• inequality
• student experience
• dyslexia
• assistive technologies
• biopower
• policy

Notes

1. Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills is the previous name of the government department responsible for the DSA and universities, the BIS.