New ICT Learning Centre Opens for Disabled Students

Portland College, a national residential specialist college for physically disabled students, recently unveiled the UK's first purpose-built ICT facility designed to cater specifically for the needs of disabled students.

Around 300 students attend the college, ranging in age from 16-60 and all have some form of physical disability, either congenital or acquired through accident or illness.

The new ICT Centre will facilitate their learning progression and career development, benefiting as it does from high-standard equipment and furniture throughout, from the IT facilities to the seating.

Such levels of specification were secured thanks to more than six years of dedicated fundraising effort by the college.

With help from a number of gratefully-received charitable donations and corporate sponsorships, the required sum of £3.6million was raised and the centre was opened to students earlier this year.