Queen Alexandra College

Services/focus of the Karten Centre

The Karten Centre is a well equipped, quiet and relaxed place to study, yet being easily accessible to all other areas of the campus.

We offer vocational training and qualifications to young people aged 16-24. The Karten Centre facilities support learners in the vocational areas of IT, Creative Media Production and Functional Skills IT for all vocational learners.

Our students might choose a qualification which focuses on the use of ICT and how it can be effectively used in the work place. They may be looking for qualifications which explore web design, databases, spreadsheets and word processing and enable them to apply their ICT knowledge to Art and Design, Computer Aided Design and computer numerical control. They may want to learn more about the technical side of IT and will be able to use our dedicated base room in the Karten Centre for developing skills in hardware repair and building.

Progression could take students into further or higher education, on to a Supported Internship placement or into paid employment in an ICT related job. Alternatively there are Apprentice or Work based training routes.

Centre specialisms:

• Mobile Technology
• Multimedia/Editing
• PC Technical Services
• Programming
• Sensory Applications
• Specialist VI software

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Centre Address

49 Court Oak Road, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9TG, United Kingdom

Karten Centre Manager

Dave Sullivan

Contact Details

Phone:

0121 428 5050

E-mail:

dsullivan@qac.ac.uk

Host Organisation

Queen Alexandra College

Host Organisation Address

49 Court Oak Road, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9TG

Centre setting

• Charity

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Karten Centre Website

http://www.qac.ac.uk/

Centre Established

March 2004

Clients

The Karten Centre sits within Queen Alexandra College, a college for young adults with learning difficulties and disabilities.

Typical ages of clients

• 16-19
• 19-25

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Disabilities

Our students have a wide range of abilities and disabilities including sensory impairment, autism, emotional and behavioural difficulties, physical disabilities and learning difficulties and disabilities.

Type/s of disabilties

• Acquired brain injury including stroke
• Autism spectrum
• Cerebral palsy
• Deaf-blind
• Dyslexia
• Epilepsy
• Hearing impairment including deafness
• Learning disability
• Limb loss
• Mental health
• Musculoskeletal disorders
• Speech or language impairment
• Spinal cord injury
• Visual impairment including blindness

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Technology used in the Karten Centre

We have a range of photography, video and audio recording equipment and Apple Mac computers in our creative media suite. We have PCs and iPads and also have a computer lab where students can learn to build PCs from component parts.

Assistive Technology

We use Zoomtext, JAWs and Read and Write Gold on most PCs and also Communicate (Widgit) software and Grid Player on a number of PCs

Providing

• EducationalProvision
• Health Provision
• Residential Service

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Karten Centre Staff

We have approximately 350 staff in the college of whom three full-time and one part-time tutor work in our Karten Centres alongside a number of Learning support assistants

Karten Centre Hours

We offer learning for 5 days per week Monday to Friday