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Centre for Inclusive learning Support

Centre for Inclusive learning Support. Dr Val Chapman (NTF), Director Dr Michelle Webster, Project Coordinator/Researcher (NTFS project) Charlie Wise, Project Officer (EU Validating Mentoring 2 project). National Teaching Fellowship Scheme project. Title: ‘Employability and Disability’

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Centre for Inclusive learning Support

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  1. Centre for Inclusive learning Support Dr Val Chapman (NTF), Director Dr Michelle Webster, Project Coordinator/Researcher (NTFS project) Charlie Wise, Project Officer (EU Validating Mentoring 2 project)

  2. National Teaching Fellowship Scheme project • Title: ‘Employability and Disability’ • Aim: to enhance graduate employability by equipping disabled students with skills to match employability competencies

  3. Employability “A set of achievements - skills, understandings and personal attributes - that make graduates more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupations, which benefits themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy.“ (Yorke, 2005, p 8)

  4. Background • more diverse workforce in UK • by 2010, 40% will be over the age of 45, and less than 20% of those working full-time will be white, non disabled men under 45 • 6.8 million disabled people of working age in UK; only 50% of these are in employment compared to 81% of non-disabled people • disabled graduates continue to be more likely to be unemployed (9%) than non-disabled graduates (6.3%) • 54.9% of non-disabled graduates work full-time compared with only 48.9% of disabled graduates

  5. Obstacles faced by disabled students in gaining employment: • anxiety about disclosing disability to potential employers; • lack of awareness about the work place due to a lack of work experience - also increases their levels of anxiety; • negative views about employment - that it will be too tough; • lowered self confidence due to unsuccessful job applications, coupled with concern that disability was a deciding factor in their not receiving a job offer; • poor self marketing. (Matosic 2008)

  6. Student Employability Profiles (Kubler et al, 2006) • produced by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) with the Council for Industry in Higher Education (CIHE) • a model that maps employability skills, competencies and attributes that CIHE employer members said they value when recruiting against skills developed through the study of a particular discipline as described in Subject Benchmark Statements (QAA,2004).

  7. USEM model (Knight &Yorke , 2004) • Understanding • Skilful Practices • Efficacy Beliefs • Metacognition

  8. Project’s Deliverables • Literature review • Audit of existing resources • Web based resource titled ‘USEMYABILITY’ target users: • academic staff • careers staff • Employers • disabled students • work-based mentors • A set of case studies of good practice • A series of dissemination activities

  9. SCIPS Strategies for Creating Inclusive Programmes of Study

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