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There’s Covid On Campus

How are disabled uni students coping now Covid-19 is on campus?

From online learning to entire halls of residences being placed in lockdown, students across the country have found themselves at university in extremely testing circumstances.

Those with a disability could potentially find it extra tough.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Ouch’s Keiligh Baker speaks to students from the University of Aberdeen, where more than 100 people tested positive for Covid-19 at the start of October.

Bea is a third year linguistics student who worries disabled students are being treated as an afterthought by universities. She became convener of the Disabled Students Forum to help change that.
Meanwhile, 19-year-old Esme is a fresher and lives opposite the halls of residence where everyone is in quarantine …

Produced by Kirstie Brewer.

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