Disability access scheme
CUT ensures structured access schemes for students with disabilities to fully participate in academic and social life, through an institution-wide system of coordinated support and accessibility policies. These schemes are guided by the University’s Action Plan for Equal Access for Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and Persons with Special Educational Needs (PwSEN), which highlights the University’s commitment to promoting equality, removing barriers, and fostering a culture of respect, inclusion, and belonging for both students and staff. The plan establishes a strategic framework based on four core goals:
- Building an inclusive and open organisational culture that values diversity.
- Ensuring accessible, flexible, and inclusive education with equal support for participation.
- Guaranteeing safe and accessible physical and digital infrastructures.
- Attracting, supporting, and retaining staff with disabilities.
Mentoring
The Center for Student Development provides structured mentoring support to students with disabilities or chronic conditions through scheduled one-to-one meetings, focusing on guidance, empowerment, and helping students navigate university life. Mentoring is further strengthened through peer-support schemes coordinated in collaboration with the Diversity & Inclusion Office, including opportunities where older students with disabilities share experience-based guidance, fostering confidence, inclusion, and self-advocacy.
Other targeted support schemes
To support inclusive participation, the Center for Student Development implements targeted academic access schemes tailored to disability-related needs, including:
- Individual tutoring reinforcement, delivered in dedicated study spaces at the Center for Student Development, through scheduled sessions (eight per course per month) by Special Educational Staff, Special Scientists, PhD students, advanced-year peers or external collaborators, based on approved criteria.
- Coordination with academic staff to support timely implementation of learning accommodations and participation arrangements aligned with individual student needs.
Complementing this, the Diversity & Inclusion Office leads accessibility-enhancing initiatives and awareness-raising actions that remove participation barriers and foster a respectful and inclusive learning environment for students with disabilities. This includes peer-mentoring opportunities, where older students with disabilities share lived-experience guidance to support confidence, belonging and self-advocacy.
Through these structured access schemes, combining mentoring, peer support, and targeted inclusion measures, CUT actively empowers students with disabilities to participate fully in university life, ensuring equal access, inclusion, and academic success.
More evidence can be found below: