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College and adult education
picture of a college Jeannie Sutcliffe and Margaret Macadam wanted to find out what college and adult education centres are really like for people with learning difficulties. They wrote to self-advocacy groups and talked to groups of students with learning difficulties to find out what they thought.

People liked learning things and making friends.

People liked getting certificates.

People liked getting help and being treated as adults.
Not everyone got a chance to go to college.
It was sometimes difficult to get to college, and transport was often late.
Some courses had been stopped.
Some people got bullied or stared at.