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Project Description
This project will recruit people (15) with a disability to a “fast-track” Higher National Certificate course and support them through the use of appropriate technology and personal development staff. The programme will use a blended learning approach, which is designed to be tailored to individual need.
This project is proposed under Priority 3 Measure 1 and as such it targets individuals who are not, nor have been recently, learners. In addition within this group we will target individuals who experience some level of disability.
We will target individuals who have a wide range of disabilities including those with physical and sensory impairment and we are aware that individuals who experience disability in their own lives frequently have their difficulties compounded by prejudice and unfair discrimination. The economic and social effects of disability may mean that the individual is a member of a number of priority groups not just one. For example they may be long term unemployed, be a member of a minority ethnic group and live in either an area with a high IMD index or in rural isolation. Because disability impacts on income levels it becomes associated with a number of other problems that individuals need support to overcome.
The range of characteristics that we expect to be displayed by our beneficiaries demands that we design the programme in such a way as to provide a level of flexibility to respond to individual needs and preferences.
The training will be arranged in locations, which are fully accessible for people with disabilities, and we will ensure access to enabling IT/ICT technology to compensate for any particular visual and hearing deficit. As far as is possible training it will be arranged at a time designed to be "family friendly" so that responsibilities of individuals in relation to family care can be easily managed. We have identified also that materials utilised must be appropriate in language, level and layout to individuals drawn from a variety of cultures/sub cultures.
The training will be delivered in small freestanding units (no longer than 2 to 3 hrs at a time) with support materials available to participants in the form of hard copy materials and/or accessed via IT/ICT. This allows us both the facility to respond to constraints but also to be pro-active in delivering training that responds to individual preferences.
The project will create a new route to achievement of the Higher National Certificate in Management (HEFCE funded) devised especially for people with a disability. The beneficiary group that we target are those individuals who have an appropriate level of academic achievement and who have a physical, sensory or acquired disability. We will also, where appropriate support individuals who have a mental health difficulty and where involvement in a programme such as we proposed will be within their compass and appropriate to their future employment.
The programme proposed is a flexible "Fast-track" route (15 months) composed of free standing units (each of which will attract "Credit Accumulation and Transfer"(CATs) points. The process is one where each individual will:
To deliver this programme we will:
Develop customised materials
Support the acquisition of the IT/ICT skills necessary to get full support
Loan software and Hardware to students where necessary.
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“All the activities described on this website are supported by European Social Fund, funded via Lancashire Learning and Skills Council or Government Office North West, or are funded by the North West Development Agency”
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