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| image = Queen Alexandra College entrance.jpg | image_size = 290px | name = Queen Alexandra College | established = 1904 | type = Further education college | head_label = Principal & CEO | head = Bev Jessop | address = Court Oak Road | city = Birmingham | county = West Midlands | country = England | postcode = B17 9TG | ofsted = yes | urn = 131963 | enrolment = 270 | lower_age = 16 | upper_age = 25 | website = http://www.qac.ac.uk/ Queen Alexandra College (QAC) is an independent specialist college of further education based in Harborne, Birmingham for students above the age of sixteen with visual impairment, autism and other disabilities. Students can develop their academic, social, employment and independent skills through individualised programmes. QAC also offers many leisure activities. Its registered charity number 1065794. The Bradbury Centre, opened in September 2006, houses a sensory My-Space area, a well equipped Art and Design studio, The Job Shop, Learning Resource Centre, Creative and Media studio and various preparation for life base rooms. The Bradbury Sports Hall, completed in 2014, is a sports facility providing all students access to a broad range of disabled and non-disabled sports. The facility is used at evening and at weekends by the local community for various activities. ProgrammesQAC offers numerous learning programmes.
ActivitiesQAC organises leisure activities outside college time including exercising in the Feelgood Fitness Centre, five-a-side football, soccer training, athletics training and competitions, '{{notatypo|fitsu}}' (portmanteau of fitness and jujutsu), goalball, swimming club and other related activities, such as ten-pin bowling at Tenpin, Star City, ice skating, pool tournaments and climbing. Other activities it organises include cinema (especially at Cineworld), premiership football matches, concerts (especially at the NIA and the NEC), karaoke, residential visits, outward bound expeditions and music club. HistoryQueen Alexandra College grew out of the Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind. In 1958, the BRIB opened a facility named the Queen Alexandra Technical College for the Blind was opened; this facility eventually became QAC's current campus. In 1997, operation of QAC was transferred from BRIB to an independent charitable company.[1] See also
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.brib.org.uk/about-brib.htm|title=BRIB Profile|accessdate=22 February 2010}} External links
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