QATRAIN FOR STUDENTS – Q4S

Q4S aims to develop a web resource to provide support for disabled young people undertaking courses in mainstream post 16 education. The resource will enable them to identify barriers to learning and provide them with strategies and practical resources to overcome these barriers. As a result, Q4S will contribute to disabled students integration into mainstream training and subsequently into employment. The web resource will be available in English, Bulgarian, Greek and Turkish.

We’re progressing well with uploading all the materials onto the web resource and we will be piloting the resource on the internet from January to April 2011. If you would like to take part in testing the resource in the new year, please contact us at q4s@worc.ac.uk.
Who will benefit from this project?

* disabled students in post 16 education
* teachers and trainers
* parents, friends and relatives of disabled students

What is the project about?

Q4S aims to develop a web resource to provide support for disabled young people undertaking courses in mainstream post 16 education. The resource will enable them to identify barriers to learning and provide them with strategies and practical resources to overcome these barriers.

As a result, Q4S will contribute to disabled students integration into mainstream training and subsequently into employment, thereby improving their life chances and enhancing the available pool of skilled labour.

The web resource and all project materials will be available in English, Bulgarian, Greek and Turkish.

How are we going to do this?

We will:

* conduct research to identify the needs of young disabled students;
* develop an online web resource with strategies for ensuring disabled students are more included on their courses;
* include case studies to demonstrate how these strategies work in practice;
* create a Self-Assessment Tool to help students identify their needs and to develop their employability and personal skills;
* produce downloadable resource guides on ICT/e-Learning, Practicals, Visual Learning Activities and Group Work that can be used independently of the web resource

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This project is 75% funded by Lifelong Learning Programme of the EU Commission.