We are not a remote course provider, that's legally and regulatorily a completely different service.

I have no authority to condone absence. Low-attenders get nagging emails which I can't stop.

Often tutors are AMAZING, they will really try and help with some extra 1:1 support, but there's hard limits on that due to workload/student-numbers. Tutors are frustrated cos student wants 1:1 of what was IN class (which isn't fair on them)

Studes often already use noise cancelling headphones etc.

I worry some students are coming to uni cos they feel they have to, and really aren't ready for it. academic and other colleagues and I often wish younger students could have a few years working first, and time to decide what they want to do, not what mum/dad/school push for.

Further Education have government metrics pushing university. Universities are on the hard sell to recruit.

I'm often astonished by students who haven't visited campus before signing up, even when they live locally...

@NatalyaD I forget who it was who recently pointed out that the main purpose of college is to prove to potential employers that you are able to show up somewhere consistently for four years, and you won't just flake on them if they hire you.

The problem is that doing anything consistently is nearly impossible for folks with #adhd, so the entire experience is tortuous.

@mikemccaffrey Yeah. We have 2 extra time options although we've actually stopped automatically giving the 2nd one to ADHDrs without a conversation first cos sometimes extending deadlines just kicks the last-minute can down the road and other problems.

Our mentors can sometimes provide a kind of regular accountability which helps some folk with ADHD if they can agree a good work-plan. Also things like study-locations e.g. library to get into study mindset, or body doubling ideas.