Delhi University has faced a lot of flak for the 'relentless' implementation of the four-year undergraduate programdespite severe opposition. The University, however, is doing its part to make education accessible to all, including the visually impaired students.
K Sriram is an example of what people with visual disabilities can achieve in life, if they have the necessary support. The commerce graduate from Loyola College who completed his MBA at IIM-Bangalore was among the 11 who received doctorates in management studies at the IIT-Madras convocation on Friday.
Tsang Tsz-Kwan’s teachers at the Ebenezer School and Home for the Visually Impaired first noticed her trouble reading with her fingers when she was just 4 years old.
A blind student from Hong Kong has learned to read Braille with her lips — because her fingertips are not sensitive enough to feel the tactile writing system's bumps.
Teachers at the Ebenezer School and Home for the Visually Impaired first spotted Tsang Tsz-Kwan having trouble deciphering characters when she was just 4 years old.
The visually impaired students of a Thanjavur school who refused to come to Chennai for higher education have been told they have no choice.
A total of 19 boys and three girls of the Thanjavur High School for the Visually Impaired had wanted to remain in their hometown as their families would not be able to afford to visit them in Chennai, they said.
For four years, the school, with sufficient student intake, has been awaiting sanction to add classes XI and XII.
Blindness did not stop me from fighting, said Kartik Sawhney, the visually challenged student who is now set to make the nation proud, by being accepted to Stanford. He was in Chennai on Saturday to conduct a workshop on Maths and Science Learning for visually impaired students. This young achiever, who just graduated high school, is someone who a lot of individuals look up to. By successfully completing his Class 12 with a 96 per cent score, he became the country’s first ever visually impaired student to pass, studying science.
Kartik Sawhney’s long struggle to ensure access to higher education for the blind is bearing fruit
The city, on Saturday, had a visitor whose story was of relentless pursuit of one’s dreams and refusal to take no for an answer.
Kartik Sawhney, a 18-year-old student with visual impairment, who recently cleared the CBSE class XII exams with 96 per cent, had put in over four years of effort to prepare for the IIT-JEE, only to be denied permission to write the test as the IIT council and the CBSE board did not have provisions for candidates with visual impairment.
Two Indians, including one from Bangalore, were among the seven young girls honoured with the UN Special Envoy for Global Education’s Youth Courage Award for Education as part of ‘Malala Day’ celebrations. Special awards were given to the girls from around the world for their courage and achievement in promoting the cause of girl’s education.
Hope to live
Education startups don’t typically have money to burn. But Desire2Learn is an exception; it recently raised $80 million, the largest-ever venture investment in a Canadian software company.
What’s the company doing with all that cash? “We’re breaking down barriers in education,” asserts founder and chief executive John Baker in a phone interview from the offices in Waterloo, Ontario.
Audio-graphs that can represent actual data-graphs are one of the many technological wonders that a group of blind students learnt about from a Delhi-based teenager this weekend. On his way to Stanford University to pursue a bachelor's degree in computer science, 18-year-old visually impaired Kartik Sawhney inspired at least 20 blind students to pursue maths and science, in a two-day workshop that ended Saturday.
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