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To be fair to Hastings, I think the problem here is the lack of support and guidance for those on the front line. I was asked to write a UCAS reference for a student, who had just got a PhD and wanted to study medicine. This guy is incredibly smart, but has dyslexia and dyspraxia, and has...

I think you're absolutely spot on. As time passes, ideas about what one might call 'disability' are changing. However, it will take a little while before society has quite worked out how to untangle what I might call useful disclosure on the one hand, versus confidentiality and privacy on the...

I work in the university sector, and we have the occasional student with dyspraxia and the occasional 'high functional' autism. Also we have the occasional student with mental health issues (different issue, but I'll lump this in for reasons that will become clear). The way we deal with this is...