Prospective students
Before you start university, or as you register in your first term, you may want to know the advice, information and support available to you if you experience any of the following:
- Specific learning difficulty or other neurodivergence;
- Mental health difficulty;
- Physical disability;
- Sensory impairments;
- A long term medical condition.
Many students find it useful to have a support plan in place for the start of term. You may have specific accommodation needs, to tell us about, because of your disability. To help us make appropriate and timely arrangements for you, we’ve created a checklist of the main things you will need to do:
Tell us what support you need?
Complete?our?Online Form?by 31 July.?
Requests?submitted?after this date will be accepted but may not be processed in time for your arrival, particularly if specialist equipment, practical support or accommodation adaptations are?required. or
Students based at our Devon Campuses
- Online prospective student form or
- Prospective Student Downloadable Form
- Please attach your Supporting Evidence
Students based at our Cornwall Campuses:
- Cornwall page for prospective students living with a disability
- Disability advice and support in Cornwall
- Individual Learning Plans and how to apply
Accommodation Support
We endeavour to support all eligible students, but please be aware if you submit your form after the accommodation guarantee deadline of 31st July we may not be able to put all your accommodation support in place.
We aim to respond to your Prospective Student form submission within one month, but please be aware that it may take us slightly longer to reply during busy periods.
Once we receive your form, we will either:
Create an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) for you, which informs relevant University departments of the reasonable adjustments we recommend for your learning and teaching, including any examination adjustments. We will confirm this to you by email.
Or
We will pass your details to our admin team who will contact you to arrange a suitable time to have an appointment with an Accessibility Advisor or Mental Health Practitioner to discuss your support in more detail.
Once you have enrolled you are welcome to book a further appointment with an AccessAbility Advisor or Mental Health Practitioner to review your support or amend your ILP.
If you need modified accommodation or have specific requirements, you will need to specify the support that would be of benefit to you on the Prospective Student form above. If you are unsure of options available to you and you are applying for a course based on our campuses in Exeter, Devon, read the guidance available on the Accommodation webpage. If you are applying for a course based in Cornwall, please see information on accessible rooms and additional requirements.
Please also fill out the separate accommodation application that opens in the April before your course starts:
Accommodation application (Devon)
Accommodation application (Cornwall)
Please submit both your prospective student form and your accommodation application before 31st July. This helps us to put your support in place for the start of term, and convey your accommodation requirements to the Accommodation Team.
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If you have any questions ?please contact us and we will be happy to help you. Below is a summary of the information on this page:
- Fill out our Prospective Online Form and attach relevant supporting evidence. Please check your emails regularly for updates from us.
- Consider applying for funded support such as?Disabled Students' Allowances (DSA)?or via apprenticeship funding if you are on an apprenticeship.
- If you have already applied for and been granted DSA funding, and are entitled to Non-Medical Helper support from the 樱花动漫, . We will be in touch to arrange this with you.
- Ensure your contact details are up to date; for example, if you are using your college or school email address it may be deactivated in the coming weeks. If you need to update your email address, please do so via?
- If you have not declared a disability on your UCAS application, please consider doing so when you complete your University?online registration. Please note that the term 'disability' is used in the Equality Act 2010 to help define who is eligible for support, and declaring a disability does not disadvantage you in any way. For further guidance, please read?our Declaring a Disability or Health Condition?document.