A longitudinal study by the Vision Impairment Centre for Teaching and Research at the University of Birmingham and the Thomas Pocklington Trust, identified key challenges experienced by blind and visually impaired people when they moved on to Further Education. It also found that many did not gain quality employment despite earning qualifications in line with the general population.

And is assistive technology making the learning and usage of braille more scarce? We want to hear your views on this - email intouch@bbc.co.uk
We get things started by talking to Anna Janickyj, a braille teacher and personal tutor from Sense College Loughborough.