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Today, TASO is launching ‘Supporting disabled students: a blueprint for transition support’.

The blueprint has been developed in response to the fact that disabled students continue to face challenges during their journey into, through and beyond higher education. 

Our research on reducing equality gaps for disabled students found that there was little UK-based evidence about the efficacy of support for transition into higher education for improving disability inclusion. It also found that there was no clear overview of the reasonable adjustments that universities and colleges can put in place to support disabled students. 

Our subsequent research mapping reasonable adjustments and transition support found that transition support is difficult to resource and appears to be delivering ‘one-off’ transition support. This is at odds with what disabled students ask for: a meaningful programme of transition support that is relevant to all parts of the student journey.  

To explore the interventions that can be used to improve the transition support for disabled students, TASO commissioned RSM UK to work with three higher education providers to develop a blueprint for transition support. The blueprint is a map of evidence-informed activities that can be delivered through a joined-up approach to enhance disabled students’ transition into higher education. 

The aim of the blueprint is to help providers select an activity – or combination of activities – that is most suitable to their context, and to help ensure that consistent transition support for disabled students is offered across the sector.