“A teenager who was refused a place at his local school because he suffered from Asperger’s syndrome has won a conditional offer to study engineering at Cambridge. Alex Goodenough, 17, taught himself at home from textbooks after Hertfordshire and Essex high school and science college (H&E) rejected his application to study there. A special educational needs and disability tribunal ordered the school to apologise to Alex for treating him less favourably ‘for a reason related to his disability’ …” (more)
[Haroon Siddique, Guardian, 20 April]