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Seeking feedback about university experiences, recommendations for schools that were supportive, thank you.

NAS88847

Hello, I am an American parent of a teenage son who wants to study in the UK or Europe for university. I'm seeking feedback about university experiences to help guide him. Are there universities that are known to be more supportive or less supportive? Thank you to anyone willing to sharing  feedback or tips about your university and experience.

Here are some of the schools my son is considering, any comments about these schools or others he should research is greatly appreciated as well. Thank you.

University of Surrey

University of Essex

University of Kent

Newcastle University

University of Glasgow

University of Edinburgh

Nottingham Trent University

Northumbria University

University of Exeter

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  • Well I can’t say that I’ve had any negative experiences or have any friends have told me about negative experiences with those specific universities I can say but there is a really huge gap between what universities are legally expected to do and what they actually do when making accommodations for disabled students.

    universities very much rely on the fact that it’s very difficult to get any kind of justice in regards to disability discrimination without taking them to court and that young students are very intimidated by the prospect of taking that university to court while simultaneously studying at it.

    there is in fact a separate adjudicator who is able to also address these disability discrimination cases, but many of the students do not use it because as disabled persons they feel quite vulnerable and intimidated standing up and accusing the  university and also because before they can do that they tend to have to go through a long winded internal complaints process before the adjudicator will look at the case.

    TLDR in British universities things go wrong with disability provision far more often than they should and there are mechanisms to address this but they require you to fight your corner and be a little bit belligerent.

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  • Well I can’t say that I’ve had any negative experiences or have any friends have told me about negative experiences with those specific universities I can say but there is a really huge gap between what universities are legally expected to do and what they actually do when making accommodations for disabled students.

    universities very much rely on the fact that it’s very difficult to get any kind of justice in regards to disability discrimination without taking them to court and that young students are very intimidated by the prospect of taking that university to court while simultaneously studying at it.

    there is in fact a separate adjudicator who is able to also address these disability discrimination cases, but many of the students do not use it because as disabled persons they feel quite vulnerable and intimidated standing up and accusing the  university and also because before they can do that they tend to have to go through a long winded internal complaints process before the adjudicator will look at the case.

    TLDR in British universities things go wrong with disability provision far more often than they should and there are mechanisms to address this but they require you to fight your corner and be a little bit belligerent.

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