Can colleagues advise me what ESOL qualifications are being offered on
these JCP courses, as it seems to me the time limit set by job centres
doesn't allow us to prepare students for the usual range of ESOL quals?
G
Gill Evans
Performance Manager ESOL
020 7573 5376
>>> Jo Luff 03/11/11 6:58 PM >>>
At a recent meeting I was astonished to learn that DWP/JCP courses for
ESOL students are not subject to OFSTED or any other external
inspection...James Lee was at that same meeting....Can someone please
confirm this.
Just about every report written on ESOL emphasises the importance of
language learning to support employability. It is a self evident fact
that those who do not speak the language of the host country will be
disadvantaged when looking for work.......hence many well qualified
refugees are working in menial jobs.
Attending ESOL courses is actively enhancing job opportunities.....but
only if those courses are properly planned ,taught by qualified and
competent staff and subject to some sort of quality assurance process.
Regrettably in my experience some ESOL students who have been pulled off
ESOL courses to attend JCP courses have failed to make any progress and
have in fact regressed.
Jan Luff ESOL Consultant/Assessor
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:56:59 +0000
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Subject: ESOL as a barrier/enabler to employment
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I would appreciate any references colleagues could provide
to research/evidence that supports the link between English language
ability
and employability.
I’m a member of DWP’s Ethnic Minority Employment
Advisory Group (EMAG) and have been
raising the issue of ESOL. There’s now an opportunity to submit evidence
to DWP/EMAG that supports the view that a person’s level of ESOL
influences:
their chances of being employed/unemployed
the type/level of job a person
can access (e.g. linking lower levels of English to underemployment
where
the individual has higher level vocational skills and/or
experience)
their progression in work
other relevant aspects of
employability
It seems an obvious point to make (i.e. that it does affect
job outcomes). DWP’s own research into refugee employment and training
(Alice Bloch, 2002) highlights the link and I have other examples. In
the past,
DWP/JCP has referred ‘customers’ needing ESOL support onto the LSC/SFA
funded Employability Skills Programme. This was short term and varied in
quality and we have raised concerns
about this.
However, given the proposed changes to BIS funding of ESOL,
it places a keener emphasis on DWP/JCP provision. Please let me know of
research (particularly within the past 3-4 years) that supports the
link,
either UK
or international.
Many thanks
James
James Lee
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