Outline

Public policy initiatives in the United Kingdom have encouraged the widening participation in higher education. In line with these initiatives, disabled students have increasingly participated in higher education, currently comprising 4 % of the total student population. In parallel with these developments there have been increasing concerns expressed about the academic standards and the related quality issues. This presentation aims to deal with the current policy and legal issues with regard to the quality issues, such as faculty development, academic achievement of disabled students, and the new ‘duties not to discriminate against disabled students ’ and duties ‘to make adjustments for disabled students ’ proposed by the Special Educationa