having been a recent graduate and now at uni, I can assure you that's not always the case, it involved a blooming lot of hard reading and paperwork! <smiles> Jack On 4/30/07, David Russell <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > carol, > > Things have changed a bit since our day. There did not appear to be a lot > of teaching going on. Students seemed to be wandering around the building > using their canes, and the whole place appeared to be as much rehabilitation > centre as educational establishment. I did not realise that was the > function of RNC these days. > > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf > Of Carol Pearson > Sent: 30 April 2007 22:36 > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNC documentary > > > Hi Chris, > > OK, we heard the documentary here, though there was no sight in the house to > confirm anything. There was the naration but, for some reason or other, we > didn't get the audio description on Cable. Anyway, after a while we > switched to digi-TV and got the audio which did improve things a little. > > My honest view is that Channel 4 made a very poor programme, wasting a lot > of time and not getting sufficient background about courses and information > through to the public. As I wrote last night, I object greatly to that > phrase "Young blind things", as though they're a piece of rubbish! I know > it may be an expression that's very much "in" now, but I found it very > demeaning indeed to think of such folk in this way. > > There were extra students around from time to time but of course I have no > knowledge as to whether one of them was Hannah. She was not mentioned by > name, so far as I can recall. Salina and Stacy were the prominent girls. > > On a good note, I was pleased (and slightly amused) to discover that they at > least still use the word "Totals" at RNC. That sure took me back! (They > didn't mention "The dims and visions" though. Perhaps, in some ways, that's > as bad as the word "things", but we chose to call ourselves by those names > and that was the difference! > > Well, forgive my rambles, Mr. Moderator. I'll get off the computer and come > back ready to keep good conduct tomorrow, promise! > > -- > Carol > carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Greg Athans" <g.athans@xxxxxxxxxxx>; > "Christine Weetman" <goatmum@xxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:04 PM > Subject: [access-uk] RNC documentary > > > > Hi all, > > Well the RNC documentary might have finished now. What did you think of > > it? Did you see Hannah at all? I don't think she was on it, which would > > be disappointing, but I'm sure it was worth the watch anyway. Any > > comments are greatly appreciated. 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