Useful links
Education
- Disabled Students' Allowances
www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople
- Department for Children Schools and Families
www.dfes.gov.uk
- Department for Employment and Learning Northern Ireland
www.delni.gov.uk - Higher Education Funding Council for England
www.hefce.ac.uk - National Union of Students
www.nus.org.uk - Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
www.qaa.ac.uk - Scottish Disability Team
www.sdt.ac.uk - Scottish Funding Councils for Further & Higher Education
www.sfc.ac.uk - TechDis Educational Advisory Service
www.techdis.ac.uk - RNIB - Royal National Institute of the Blind
www.rnib.org.uk/student
Employment
- Department for Work and Pensions
www.dwp.gov.uk(opens in new window)
General
- Disability Alliance
www.disabilityalliance.org/ - Disability Rights Commission
www.drc-gb.org - Disabled Living Foundation
www.dlf.org.uk - National Network of Assessment Centres
www.nnac.org - Disability Now - the monthly magazine for people with disabilities often has items on HE
www.disabilitynow.org.uk
Specific
- Action for M.E.
www.afme.org.uk - Action on Access
www.actiononaccess.org/ - British Dyslexia Association
www.bdadyslexia.org.uk - Dyslexia Institute
www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk - Dyspraxia Foundation
www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk - Mental Health Foundation
www.mentalhealth.org.uk - MIND National Association for Mental Health
www.mind.org.uk - Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
www.mssociety.org.uk - National Autistic Society
www.nas.org.uk - Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
www.rnib.org.uk - (RNID) Royal National Institute for Deaf People
www.rnid.org.uk - Scope
www.scope.org.uk - Sense
www.sense.org.uk