In celebration of winning the Aontas STAR Award (National Category) recently, the teaching staff of the Open Training College were invited to speak on the popular RTE Radio 1 show ‘Outside The Box’.

Outside The Box shines a spotlight on issues of broad concern to disabled people, their families and representative organisations.  The show confronts issues head on and is not afraid to challenge commonly held assumptions about disabled people and the disability sector.  With an estimated 300,000 people in Ireland touched by some sort of physical, sensory or intellectual disability, the relevance of Outside The Box stretches far beyond the disabled community to industry, policymakers and the general public.

Discussion between Olan McGowan, the show’s presenter, and the three OTC teaching staff members – Raymond Watson, Alacoque McAuley Savage and Mick Keating – centred around the collaborative nature and flexibility of all courses on offer from the College to adult learners, particularly the  BA in Applied Social Studies (Disability).

Please click here to be directed to an audio link to hear the 24 minute show that released on May 21st, 2010.