Support for apprentices
NTU has a dedicated team working with students on apprenticeship courses who have a disability and may need support with their studies.
Advice sessions
If you'd like to speak to us about support with your course, you can book a one-to-one advice appointment. We can help you with:
- access statements and exam arrangements,
- timetabling support,
- accessibility,
- library support,
- advice about funding for adjustments (including equipment and specialist person support).
Additional support
If you need additional support not covered by an access statement, we can explore this at an advice session, where you will be invited to discuss your needs with an in-depth assessment.
Support can include loaned equipment such as a laptop and assistive software, and non-medical helpers including: notetakers, BSL interpreters and mentors.
We know your time is limited and you may need support outside of the normal working day, so we use external companies to deliver that support. Common recommendations include:
- Specialist mentors: help with mental health and wellbeing, study and exam advice, access to funding, concentration and memory difficulties and more.
- Specialist study skills tutors: may be recommended to students with a Specific Learning difference such as Dyslexia or ADHD, or students who have an Autistic Spectrum condition. They don't provide subject-specific guidance, but you'll get one-to-one support sessions in areas such as: writing, time management, exam technique, academic skills development, use of assistive technologies and more.
Access statements and exam arrangements
Your access statement details any reasonable adjustment that we have recommended for you to support your studies and will be shared with your academic school and the exams team at NTU. Visit our webpage about access statements to find out more information.
Your disability officer can set up an access statement for you in an advice session if you have evidence of your diagnosis or referral for a diagnosis. Please book an advice session to set up your access statement and send in your evidence of a diagnosis.
If you do not have, or can not find evidence of your diagnosis, you can use this form to take to the doctors for them to complete.
Please be aware that if we have not had your medical evidence by the end of February, you may not get your arrangements put in place for the end of year exams.
If you already know what works for you, you can create your own Access Statement.
Contact us
- email: apprentice.support@ntu.ac.uk
- phone: +44 (0)115 848 3495