Student Minds

Get involved or show your support! This year we have chosen to support leading UK student mental health charity, Student Minds. On UMHD Plymouth University Student Minds volunteers will be in the main foyer of the Student’s Union from 10am-4pm offering...

University Mental Health Day 2019

Amano Donate to Student Minds! To kick off our All of Us campaign, we will be making a £500 donation this University Mental Health Day to organisers and our chosen charity of the year, Student Minds. Student Minds do invaluable work to help bring about change and...

Does DSA work?- The Report

Given the recent changes to DSAs funding and provision, the Department for Education (DfE) recently commissioned IFF Research to evaluate the appropriateness of the current DSA model. The main aim of the study was to assess the extent to which DSAs are meeting their...

Call to improve support for disabled students

More students with a disability are going to university than ever before, but we need greater progress to level the playing field. Chris Skidmore, Universities Minister, wants universities to do as much as they can to support this underrepresented group. Read the full...

Stand-out Amano Consultants!

SPELL Framework Autism Training 27th November 2018 We are delighted to have received some excellent feedback from Susan Kimber of the National Autistic Society following a training session held in November 2018: I would like to pass on my thoughts about the recent...

DSA Claim It!

It’s estimated that in 2017 nearly half the people eligible for DSA did not make a claim. For many students the funding from DSA and the extra support from their uni allows them to continue studying, rather than leaving their course* Amano are supporting the...