ACSES: Insights Reports on Disability in Higher Education - Stage 1
This Stage 1 report on the stocktake of public information on disability in Australian Universities is the first of multiple planned Insights Reports. These ACSES Insight Reports aim to identify and report sector-level issues, gaps, and opportunities. Performance monitoring of disability has traditionally been grounded in the Martin equity and general performance indicators for higher education (Martin 1994). Disability data is based upon self-declared disability through enrolment processes. Enrolment declarations include self-reported categories for disability. This focus on categories of disability is grounded in individual characteristics rather than the environmental factors that are central to social and ecological models of disability. This stocktake aims to go beyond counting students by individual category of disability by documenting facets of the learning environments with which students interact.