There’s nothing like the blissful relief you feel when you have a vivid nightmare about having to do an exam you know you haven’t revised for, but then you wake up and remember that your last exam was twenty years ago. I had such a dream a few nights ago – they’re apparently quite common.

Coincidentally, today is A-Level results day, and I just watched a big item about it on BBC Breakfast. That made me wonder: what is the current situation for disabled students? A couple of years ago, I blogged about how glad I was to have gone to university when I did, as I probably couldn’t have gone under the current climate of Tory cuts, Brexit and Covid. But that was during the pandemic, so I’m now wondering whether things have changed: are students with disabilities going to university again? Where could I find the figures? I know it’s early days, but might the new Labour government help to restore things to how they were twenty years ago, with more of an emphasis on inclusion? Mind you, the picture is probably muddied by the fact that far more people are identifying as disabled these days, so there might be lots more ‘disabled students’, but that won’t necessarily mean guys like myself. Even so, the questions remain: could I have gone to uni in the current climate? and how many students with physical disabilities like CP are going to uni this year, vs twenty years ago?