Equality Act 2010 does not protect disabled students enough

To be honest I found university to be the most disability tolerant stage of my life.

I am writing this from the perspective of mental health, perhaps physical disability is different. However University is probably the place where you will receive the most support with your condition than anywhere else. Once you enter the working world there are things like occupational health and HR (if your company is big enough, in small companies this isn't always the case) but honestly the truth is if you can't do the work then they won't offer you the job and you can't keep the job. Obviously there is legislation that prevents discrimination to some extent and you have the right to ask for reasonable adjustments but unfortunately with things like interviews they could easily reject you for a disability and just blame it on something else.

Charities like scope offer employment advice and there are inclusive employer job search sites such as 'Evenbreak' but there's still a long way to go.

With regard to university have you applied for DSA? If you have DSA you can request a mentor who will fight your corner with tutors and help you plan and manage your work.

I applied for Adult Disability Payment in June and have yet to hear back from them.

I did PIP end of March and got a yes start of June so shouldn't be much longer

I don't think legislation is the issue.

"Other oneS"

I found disability support in the UK to be way better than other countries (e.g the likes of France) at least in my experience.

We shall think about how to improve it.

I personally don’t have any issues at the moment with the current disability act in it’s current form

Then it may be the biggest issue instead.

What may be the biggest issue?

Wilful denial or resistance to changes.

I don’t like change but even I did I have zero issues with the equality act in its current form. Maybe there’s one aspect of it that I would change but the disability section wouldn’t be part of that change.

Can you tell me why there is nothing wrong with the current laws?

It already prohibits the discrimination against people on the basis of their disability, I don’t believe in criminalising things further, the act protects me (obviously won’t be the case for everyone) enough etc

Way better than France in my opinion.

How does it "prohibit" when there are no legal consequences for perpetrators who are protected by financially powerful institutions and committing the discriminations under different "official" justifications?

What kind of discrimination are we talking about?

Legal consequences already covered under hate crime

Hate crime legislations do not cover behaviours of institutional discrimination.