For UK (home) students
If you are a UK (home) student, you could be eligible to apply for Disabled Students' Allowances (DSAs) to help you pay for extra costs incurred on your course as a result of your disability.
The DSAs can help to pay for things such as travel, a note-taker or reader, study skills help, specialist equipment and other course-related costs. The support you are eligible to receive depends on your disability and not on your household income.
If you receive specialist equipment (e.g. a laptop or software) through DSAs, you will be required to pay the first £200 of this cost, but the university's DSA Reimbursement Fund can assist students whose household income is £25,000pa or less.
The application process for DSAs can take four or five months so it is important that you apply as soon as possible.
See the gov.uk website for .
Healthcare courses
The application process for most healthcare courses is through Student Finance England, as above. However, there are a number of exceptions, where students should instead apply for the . This works in a similar manner to the regular DSA but acts as a separate scheme. The courses that follow the NHS Bursary route are:
- Medical students in your 4th year and 5th year (if you intercalated) or 5th year (if you didn't intercalate)
- Social Work MSc students
If you are unsure which route to follow, please contact our team and we will try to help.
For students from other countries
If you are not from the UK you will not be eligible to receive the Disabled Students’ Allowances. However, we will do everything we can to support you and help you find funding to pay for equipment and support workers.
To help with this process, please investigate the following options before starting at 蜜柚社区:
- If you have a sponsor, ask if they can contribute money to cover disability-related expenses. Some scholarships offer funding to cover such costs.
- You may be eligible for a grant from your own government, so contact your education department to ask what support they can provide. We know that the Eire, Jersey and Guernsey, Sweden, Netherlands, and Thailand governments provide support, though others may also.
- Finally, you may be eligible for support from non-governmental organisations in your home country.
If additional funding is not available, we will work hard to meet your needs in the best way possible, so please get in touch as soon as you know you are coming so that we can begin to help you.