For the most part, I think it’s fair to say my university experience was overwhelmingly positive. Uni made me who I am, I excelled academically and I made countless life-long friends (on that note, congratulations to Jenny and Steve for tying the knot this weekend). In large part that was because I had all the support I needed: my wonderful LSA helped me take my notes and type my work; the staff were very accommodating. I cannot possibly complain, which is why I’m rather puzzled about this Disability News Service story about a student who seems to have had precisely the opposite experience: Lesley Bayly-Bureau was booted out from her psychology degree at City University, London having received very little support and nothing in terms of reasonable adjustments. They seem to have refused pointblank to accommodate her needs in any way. Frankly reading this article, something doesn’t seem quite right, as if we aren’t being given the full picture. There’s no way that a uni would act as reported in this article; if they have, the law should pounce on them with full force. I hope this is just a case of a terrible muck-up and not a symptom of the way things are going in general.