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The Career Focus project is one of the Innovations initiatives in higher education. It aims to develop and deliver highly specialised programmes for training and preparing Black and Asian graduates and postgraduates for the realities of the world of work.
The Innovations programme is part of the ongoing effort to explore and identify more creative and better ways to improve and widen the employability of disadvantaged groups.
The Career Focus project is planned in four phases: recruitment; career open evenings; five two-day workshops providing intensive and interactive learning; evaluation and feedback. The intensive and interactive learning programmes and methodologies are specifically designed with the objectives of employability and widening participation in mind.
The complex dynamics of the global marketplace require some long-term strategic thinking and planning. There are enormous benefits to be reaped from the unlimited potentials and possibilities of a highly talented, motivated and diverse workforce.
This project represents a small but a significant contribution, as it is consistent with and capturing the spirit of the Dearing Report, the considerable possibilities provided by the prospects of life-long learning and the need for some national framework for assessing the levels of competence, vocational and academic qualifications and training.
The core funding of Career Focus is provided by the Higher Education Council for England (HEFCE). The project has some scope for further support from and partnerships with other sponsors from the private, public and voluntary sectors.
With the Innovations Team acting as overseers, the project is being delivered by the Windsor Fellowship and Amos Recruitment and Training Ltd. In close partnership with employers across the sectors, the programme is primarily designed to cater for the high productivity and highly skilled end of the employment markets.
Since higher growth depends wholly on greater productivity, the development of highly skilled workforce need not be left to chance or bad planning. The development of a highly skilled workforce therefore, is also important for the emergence of a more equitable society, given the intimate co-relation between skill levels, employability, the levels of earning and social mobility.
For over a decade, the Windsor Fellowship has pioneered various schemes and remained at the forefront of helping talented individuals, enabling them to fully achieve their career and life goals. Identifying, helping and working with high achievers from amongst the Black and Asian communities has been one of the core activities of the Fellowship.
The Windsor Fellowship graduate and postgraduate programmes have been developed in partnership with some of the UK's leading organisations such as Amos Recruitment and Training Ltd. These programmes are designed to develop leaders who are able to reconcile the diverse aspirations of the marketplace, the workplace and the community.
The programmes of the Windsor Fellowship over the years have opened up enormous possibilities for Black and Asian graduates and postgraduates, and nurtured within them the necessary skills and self-belief by which they have gone on to achieve greater things. Through such activities, the Fellowship has been instrumental and influential in making positive contributions in the social and economic contexts of Black and Asian communities within the UK.
Amos Recruitment and Training Ltd is one of the leading recruitment and training consultancies specialising in the development and delivery of optimum and qualitative human resources strategies which maximises the given potentials and performance of individual professionals and the organisations in which they work.
As part of its wider services and its partnership with the Windsor Fellowship, Amos Recruitment and Training Ltd has established itself as one of the leading pioneers in designing and developing Career Focus Programmes for Black and Asian graduates and postgraduates. These very highly specialised programmes aim to train and prepare such graduates and postgraduates to the realities of the worlds of work, in the increasingly more complex and competitive worlds of knowledge-based economies.
Each workshop will be monitored and followed up with the appropriate evaluation and feedback. This will form part of the final report that will summarise the achievements and outcomes of the workshops, using both qualitative and quantitative analysis and research methods. The final report will also highlight overall interests, attendance levels and vacancy resourcing results.
The research-driven and evidence based approach to the process of monitoring, evaluation and feedback of these programmes, will be a useful contribution to this and related debates on the issues of employability, skills development, educational development and the competitiveness of Britain in an increasingly complex global marketplace.
For further details of the Career Focus project, contact:
Althea Johnson Project Manager E-Mail: althea.johnson@amosltd.com
Mark Blake Project Manager E-Mail: BlakeM@windsor-fellowship.org
Deng Ajak Project Co-ordinator E-Mail: deng.ajak@amosltd.com
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