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TechDis - Service aimed at enhancing access for those with learning difficulties and/or disabilities, to learning and teaching, research and administration across higher and further education through the use of information and communication technologies.
Centre for Disability Studies - Interdisciplinary centre for teaching and research in the field of disability studies at the University of Leeds. Includes publications, resources, research and events.
University of Westminster-Computer Centre for People with Disabilities (CCPD) - Support for disabled students and provider of 'Needs Assessments' and specialist IT training for all UK students pursuing claims under the Disabled Student Allowance.
Deaf Support Team - City of Bristol College - Sign language and notetaking support for deaf and hearing impaired students in college. Courses and deaf awareness information for students and tutors.
Sheryll Holley - Providing speech to text services for the deaf and hard of hearing in the business or education sectors. Cardiff based, includes service details and costs.
After 16 - Resources for disabled teenagers who are leaving school. Includes information on money matters, further education and work.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Education If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Education "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Education Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Education Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Education "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. Education We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Education Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard Education Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Education "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Education He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle Education "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Education I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Education Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Education Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Education It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Education Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Education Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Education "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Education You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Education Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Education "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations Education
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