Students with disabilities forced to quit IT colleges

Niall Murray, Education Correspondent

Students with disabilities forced to quit IT colleges

The research for AHEAD, the Association of Higher Education Access and Disability, found 2.7% of undergraduates in the 14 ITs have disabilities, compared to 1.6% in 1999.

More than two-thirds of these 1,366 students have specific learning difficulties, such as with reading, writing or numeracy.

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