... college, or for minority subjects (such as Russian or Japanese) which do not justify a full-time teacher in a single school; 5. Links with other schools or colleges, or with industrial or business organisations; 6. Special facilities available for students with disabilities - for example partially-sighted students may be able to change text size and background colour, blind people can use text-to speech conversion packages, people with arthritis or cerebral palsy may control the computer by speaking to it instead of using the keyboard or mouse. 2. Case study: John Cabot City Technology College If the network goes down at John Cabot City Technology College in Bristol, it is the pupils who complain the loudest. "The network has become an essential crutch for them", says Keith McCorkindale, the school's principal. "It's not so much an add-on as a way of life." The school has several overlapping networks, including one for its 600 students. They can ...

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