QUALITY AND ACCESSIBLE TRAINING (QATRAIN)

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Project duration:24month
Start: 01.10.2005
Finish: 30.09.2007

Partners:
* University of Worcester, UK
* French and Burt limited, UK
* Marie Curie Association, Bulgaria
* ORT, France
* University of Joanina, Greece
* Uniwesytet Jagiellocski, Poland

The target groups:
* Teachers and trainers in VET;
* Designers and developers of VET programmes;
* Individuals and agencies with specific QA responsibilities in VET;
* Policy-makers concerned with the improvement of quality in VET;
* Organisations providing VET.

Target sectors:
* Education;
* Health and Social Work;
* Recreational, Cultural and Sporting Activities

End Users:
People with disabilities, teachers, trainers, QA and other staff.
Project aim:
The project will improve access by giving to people with disabilities a greater opportunity to participate in mainstream vocational education and training (VET) on a basis equivalent to that of their non—disabled peers. It enables providers of VET and their staff to improve the quality of provision for disabled people by enabling them to anticipate, and often eradicate, potential barriers within training programmes. This will improve participation rates and the range and quality of outcomes.

Project results:
* The current project will also make a major step forward, in all countries, to all levels of advanced VET (inside and outside universities) therefore opening up a wide range for future transfer of project outcomes;
* It provides an important tool to support the integration of disabled people into mainstream training;
* This project enables educators and trainers to teach people with disabilities in their disciplines in accessible way. The SCIPS (Strategies for Creating Inclusive Programmes of Study) platform gives an unique opportunity to the users to review the different subjects, to gain knowledge about the types of disabilities, the challenges and predicaments of people with disabilities, the different ways for their overcoming as well as many successfully managed practical cases. In order to examine SCIPS more carefully visit: www.scips.worc.ac.uk

More information at: www.qatrain.org