Any chance you could forward this information on to any D/deaf graduates
who might be interested in some free practical training? Many thanks.
Take A New Look: Deaf Graduates Into Employment
A free training course for unemployed D/deaf Graduates
Information Day: 16th March 2005
Course: April-July 2005
Thanks to the European Social Fund, the Centre for Access and Communication
Studies is able to repeat this highly successful and innovative course, the
only one of its kind in the UK.
This course is for you if you are:
· Hard of hearing
· Deaf/deaf
· Unemployed
· A graduate
Recent research by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People shows that
deaf people continue to be discriminated against at work or during the job
application process and are twice as likely to be unemployed than someone
who can hear.
This course is supported by the European Social Fund and is FREE to anyone
who:
- is unemployed or works less than 16 hours per week
- lives in England, but not in Cornwall, Merseyside or South Yorkshire
(these areas are covered by a different ESF project)
You do not need to be in receipt of benefit. While on the course you will
be eligible for free travel, accommodation, childcare and care allowance
for dependent relatives etc.
This free training course for unemployed D/deaf graduates will be held at
the University of Bristol during April and July 2005. It will be for one
week per month and full communication support will be provided on all
sessions.
The course is open to all graduates from ANY Higher Education Institute,
not just from Bristol. You may have left University recently or several
years ago. You are welcome to attend if you have never been in employment
and equally if you are "in between" jobs.
Take A New Look: Deaf Graduates Into Employment
This free course will cover:
· planning your career
· how to find out about jobs
· making your CV look good
· how to fill in application forms
· increasing your confidence
· interview skills
· how to work with interpreters, lipspeakers and notetakers
· The Disability Discrimination Act and you
· Deaf issues
· Access to Work funding
· managing your boss
· working with hearing people- hearing awareness
Residential accommodation will be provided if required. The rooms are
equipped with "Deaf Alerters". Travel costs will be met and
childcare/dependent relative costs covered to enable you to attend.
The course will be held at Burwalls Centre for Continuing Education, a
Victorian country house which stands in its own grounds next to the famous
Clifton Suspension Bridge in Leigh Woods, Bristol.
If you are interested, please contact us by Friday 11th March 2005 using
the contact details below:
Anna Wheeler
Administrator to Barbara Seager, Project Officer
Centre for Access & Communication Studies
University of Bristol Union Building,
Queens Road, Clifton, Bristol
BS8 1LN
Tel: 0117 954 5705
Fax: 0117 954 5714
Textphone: 0117 954 5715
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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