Free Digital Passport Programme to students starting college in 2021

UCC’s Skills Centre is offering a FREE 5 DAY PROGRAMME, our Digital Passport, to students who are transitioning to college in September 2021.

This is an amazing opportunity for students to get a head start on making learning easier with technology.We want to ensure that students transitioning to college who have a disability or learning difficulty get first choice so if you're interested book it now.

You can read all about it on our website:

UCC’s Digital Passport Course for students preparing to come to college in 2021

Click on the following link to BOOK YOUR PLACE ON THE DIGITAL PASSPORT COURSE.

Autism&Uni is an EU-funded initiative to help autistic students during the transition into university. The project team created the Autism&Uni Toolkit for use by universities and has been adapted by many universities in several different countries. Built on an open-source platform, the toolkit is freely available for universities to adopt and adapt, as we have done so here in UCC.

The underlying ethos of the toolkit is that students can use it in their own time, do research about issues concerning them, and come back to it when difficulties arise. You can read more about the Autism&Uni project here.

The aim of the toolkit is to reduce anxiety and give clear guidance on many aspects of college life. The toolkit is laid out in a logical way offering practical advice and detailed information on the student journey, from thinking about college to how to plan for further study or entering the workforce.

The development of the UCC Autism&Uni Toolkit has been shaped by the needs of autistic students in UCC and informed by the research literature around autistic students in higher education. The toolkit has been put together by drawing on existing resources from other universities in Ireland and the UK, as well as original content created specifically for the UCC context. UCC students (with and without a diagnosis of autism) have helped shape the content both through review and their own contributions.