Students with disabilities forced to quit IT colleges

Niall Murray, Education Correspondent

Wed, 24 Aug, 2005 - 01:00

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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