COLLEGE staff need to change their methods and their attitudes to teaching students with disabilities, it was claimed.

JUST one in six of blind or visually impaired students enter third-level education, compared to more than half of students with no disability, a study has found.

Blind children are not getting the support they need in school to excel with just one in six making it to third level education, new research today revealed.

The majority of disabled people do not disclose their disability when applying for a job, according to a group campaigning on their behalf.

DISCRIMINATION against disabled people is embedded in Irish society, President Mary McAleese said yesterday at the opening of “Get Ahead,” a new lecture series on living with disabilities in modern Ireland.

Discrimination against the disabled is embedded in sections of Irish society, President Mary McAleese announced today.

JUST five out of 14 institutes of technology (IoTs) are fully accessible to students with disabilities, a survey has found.