Visually impaired students appearing for tests like the computer certificate, bank probationary officers exam, teacher eligibility test (TET) or clerical tests are facing a major shortage of scribes.

While the need for scribes ranges from between 30 to 300 a month, unfortunately there are not many available. As the eligibility criteria is stringent, most students find it difficult to find a scribe.

THE Google Impact Challenge is run by the technology giant and asks UK-based charities how they would change the world through innovative technology.
Dragons' Den star and entrepreneur Peter Jones is on the judging panel, and one of the finalists is the smart glasses prototype from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).

The mother of a severely disabled teenager who has been given only a few years to live says she has been threatened with fines and prosecution if she takes him on a term-time holiday.
Curtis Ingrouille-Kidd, 13, has cerebral palsy, suffers epileptic fits and is blind.
His family have been told he could die any time between the ages of 14 and 19, yet his school would not give permission for the proposed trip because it is during term time.

The case is the latest apparent injustice sparked by a crackdown on truancy ordered by the former Education Secretary Michael Gove.

A project to develop smart glasses which can help blind and partially sighted people see shapes and obstacles has been named as one of 10 finalists in this year’s Google Impact Challenge.

Created in partnership between the RNIB and Oxford University, the team has developed a high-tech, cost effective pair of smart glasses which its says will maximise the remaining vision the wearer has.
A 3D camera attached to the glasses captures images of a person’s environment and processes that information to identify shapes and object nearby.