Support students with disabilities

WE welcome Dr Murphy’s views as reported in your newspaper recently and agree with his concerns about the impact on student experience of diminishing resources and staff shortages in higher education.

UCC has a sterling record in promoting access for students with disability and demonstrates excellence in its implementation of support services, so we are deeply disappointed with the assumptions being made about the ability of students with disabilities in his talk.

To paraphrase, he suggests that educating and supporting students with disabilities is a costly exercise that we can’t afford in the current climate as it steals from resources available to the talented 5% of top academic students who the country needs in order to be creative and build our future.