Royal National College for the Blind

The Royal National College for the Blind (RNC) is the leading Further Education Specialist Residential College for learners who have a visual impairment in the United Kingdom. Our mission is to "to enable people who are blind or partially sighted, and who may have additional disabilities, to achieve their full potential and integration in society." RNC was inspected by the government in November 2004 and found to be an outstanding college, providing high quality education and training where students' individual needs are very well met. (The college was inspected again in June 2006 and its outstanding status was confirmed). In recognition of this RNC has been awarded 'Beacon Status,' and is the only speicalist colleg for learners with a visual impaiarment to have been awarded this status. There are approximately 200 learners at RNC made up of 115 younger learners between the ages of 16 - 19 and 85 adult learners 18 years and over from the UK and abroad. RNC offers a range of academic and vocational programmes and also delivers distance learning courses.

Contact:
Royal National College for the Blind
Ms. Shirley Evans
College Road 1, Hereford HR6 9DX (Great Britain)
Fon: +44 1432 265725
Fax: +44 1432 376628
Web: www.rncb.ac.uk
Email: se@rncb.ac.uk