Hereward College

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Hereward College (ATV Today)

Media Archive for Central England
Tile Hill
1972-05-04
Sound
Closed captions
Audio description
8m

In 1971 Hereward College opened its doors to students with disabilities. It was the first of its kind but when ATV Today's Derek Hobson visited in May 1972 it only had twenty-five students out of a population of three million people with disabilities in England. It may have been a drop in the ocean but this pioneering college was symbolic of a new way forward, although notice how the college is still being referred to as 'an experiment'.

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