{"id":142483,"date":"2025-09-14T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142483\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:43:06","slug":"blind-man-told-gcse-computing-would-be-too-hard-earns-degree-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142483\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind man told GCSE computing would be too hard earns degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Jabbar, who lives in Birmingham, said he enjoyed working on computers from a young age and started teaching himself to code when he was about 13 using publicly available resources and screen readers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I really liked using computers and I thought that &#8216;I want to be able to build something with it,'&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he was told at school that a GCSE in computer science might be &#8220;too fast paced&#8221; for him and the exam board may not be able to make the required adjustments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Their logic was &#8216;it&#8217;s going to be too hard for you because of your disability, you might not be able to do it,'&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Jabbar said his mum tried to convince the school to let him study computing but her efforts were unsuccessful and he ended up studying a BTEC in IT which he said he found &#8220;easy&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Jabbar, who lives in Birmingham, said he enjoyed working on computers from a young age and started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-142483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}