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Employability. 9.7.1 We recognise that a difficult economic climate exacerbates the difficulties faced by students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the labour market. This is why we are increasing our investment in initiatives to enhance employment outcomes for our students and to support graduates in our target groups. We will therefore further invest in our recently-piloted Internship Support Scheme designed to „level the playing field‟ for students from poorer backgrounds and enable them to take part in internships from which they would have otherwise been excluded. This will include work with professional groups with whom we have close links such as in law and medicine to negotiate „fair access‟ internship opportunities. 9.7.2 We are also aware that one of the key enablers to achieving graduate-level employment is gaining relevant and high quality work experience. We therefore propose to create a Centre within our Careers Service to lead on the further development of the placements, internships and work experience offer to our students. The aim of this Centre will be to operate as an advice and recruitment service for those seeking additional employability experience – be that as part of their course (Placements), as a paid Intern, or short-term career-related work experience (which may or may not be paid). The Centre will draw on the skills of experienced and qualified staff who are actively engaged with employers, to support students and the academic staff who work with them while out on placements. In addition, the University will provide financial support to help disadvantaged students with the costs of undertaking career related work experience where that work experience is either unpaid, low paid or the student would incur additional costs associated with taking up the opportunity. This funding can be used to cover travel or accommodation (where the work location is not local) and/or dependant care costs incurred as a result of undertaking the work experience. This funding is required as the issues outlined above are often a barrier to students undertaking such opportunities. 9.7.4 We will mount a substantial initiative to form an 'incubation centre' for student companies supported by a range of internships. In its mature state the centre should support the formation of at least one student company for each broad discipline area. We will appoint a group of 'Access to Enterprise Fellows; to these companies and give them the responsibility for outreach to our target schools and colleges to talk about their experience and to encourage progression to higher education and to underline the value and importance of student enterprise.

Employability. 9.7.1 We recognise In Session 2015-16 the College undertook a review and evaluated both the effectiveness and affordability of the Skills Development Scotland Employability Fund courses. The outcome of this review is that the College did not deliver SDS Employability Fund courses in Session 2016-17. The College recognises that there is a difficult economic climate exacerbates need for this type of provision and delivers under the difficulties faced by students from disadvantaged backgrounds employability banner in many courses across the college. However the extended work experience element we delivered within the Employability Fund programmes is a crucial support mechanism for the more vulnerable learner and the more we can offer to scaffold transitions to employment the better; as the college, the learner and employer will all benefit. As such, two new courses have been developed in Construction and Retail, which run for 18 weeks, and provide learners with an extended 14 week supported work placement. The College offered both courses with three different start dates through Session 2016-17, and plans to continue with this provision going forward. The learners for this type of programme tend to be young people who are vulnerable and need additional support; they lack self-confidence and self-esteem, they have struggled in the labour marketschool environment and tend to be care experienced. This As such they do require more support both in college and when they are in the work place. By changing the programme to an 18 week programme opens up the student support services and funding to this group and allows us to recruit on this basis. Furthermore we have strong links with DWP and SDS as well as our LEP partners in identifying and reaching this group of young people. A project was initiated within the College to help evidence and provide management information on the many forms of Employer Engagement undertaken by many staff within many areas of College activity. The aims of this project are to define what strands of Employer Engagement we will aim to collect, and how we will centrally collate, report and use this information. The first phase of this development is why we are increasing our investment in initiatives now live, allowing staff to enhance employment outcomes record their engagement with employers. Linked to this project, the College is piloting an e-portfolio tracking system which is being used for our students and to support graduates in our target groups. We will therefore further invest in our recently-piloted Internship Support Scheme designed to „level the playing field‟ for students from poorer backgrounds with Modern Apprentices and enable them to take part in internships from which they would have otherwise been excludedVQ Learners. This will include work with professional groups with whom we have close links such as in law and medicine to negotiate „fair access‟ internship opportunities. 9.7.2 We are also aware that one of the key enablers to achieving graduate-level employment is gaining relevant and high quality work experience. We therefore propose to create a Centre within our Careers Service to lead on the further development of the placements, internships and work experience offer to enable our students. The aim , their assessors and their employers improved access to track progress through their qualification, enable more effective communication, and enable a more efficient way of this Centre will be students to operate as an advice and recruitment service for those seeking additional employability experience – be that as part submit evidence of achieving milestones from their course (Placements)workplace, as a paid Intern, or short-term career-related work experience (which may or may not be paid). The Centre will draw on the skills of experienced and qualified staff who are actively engaged with employers, to support students and the academic staff who work with them while out on placements. In addition, the University will provide financial support to help disadvantaged students with the costs of undertaking career related work experience where that work experience is either unpaid, low paid or the student would incur additional costs associated with taking up the opportunity. This funding can be used to cover travel or accommodation (where the work location is not local) and/or dependant care costs incurred as a result of undertaking the work experience. This funding is required as the issues outlined above are often a barrier to students undertaking such opportunities. 9.7.4 We will mount a substantial initiative to form an 'incubation centre' for student companies supported by a range of internships. In its mature state the centre should support the formation of at least one student company for each broad discipline area. We will appoint a group of 'Access to Enterprise Fellows; to these companies and give them the responsibility for outreach to our target schools and colleges to talk about their experience and to encourage progression to higher education and to underline the value and importance of student enterprisereceive quicker feedback from assessors.

Employability. 9.7.1 We recognise that Although Skills Development Scotland (SDS) funded places are reducing nationally, the College is seeking to maintain Employability Fund delivery and a difficult economic climate exacerbates the difficulties faced by students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the labour marketbid has been submitted to SDS for delivery of employer targeted skills provision. This is why we are increasing our investment in initiatives to enhance employment outcomes A total of 131 places have been requested for our students and to support graduates in our target groups. We will therefore further invest in our recently-piloted Internship Support Scheme designed to „level the playing field‟ for students from poorer backgrounds and enable them to take part in internships from which they would have otherwise been excluded. This will include work with professional groups with whom we have close links such as in law and medicine to negotiate „fair access‟ internship opportunities. 9.7.2 We are also aware that one of the key enablers to achieving graduate-level employment is gaining relevant and high quality work experience. We therefore propose to create a Centre within our Careers Service to lead on the further development of the placements, internships and work experience offer to our students. The aim of this Centre will be to operate as an advice and recruitment service for those seeking additional employability experience – be that as part of their course (Placements), as a paid Intern, or short-term career-related work experience (which may or may not be paid). The Centre will draw on the skills of experienced and qualified staff who are actively engaged with employers, to support students and the academic staff who work with them while out on placementsdelivery during 2017/18. In addition, the University College delivers programmes focussing on behavioural change for long term unemployed candidates. These programmes support 100-150 candidates per annum to consider the issues that are preventing them to get a job and think in a different way about the steps that they can take to make key changes in their life to obtain a job. The College has launched the “D&A Attributes” which have been fostered and developed for all College learners. These attributes have been developed in partnership with students, staff, employers and others to support the development of genuine employability skills and to meet the College’s 2020 ambition to ensure that D&A students are actively sought after by our employers. The embedding of these attributes is particularly important for those younger learners undertaking employability based provision and developing their skills as a part of pipeline stages 2, 3 and 4. The D&A attributes do, however cover all learners equally and develop a series of key employability, enterprise and work skills and attributes across all SCQF levels. This will provide a Bronze, Silver and Gold accreditation which will recognise the learning within the curriculum alongside the wider achievement opportunities which employers value. During 15-16 the Cashback for Creativity Programme funded through Creative Scotland and the BBC Make it Digital programme supported by SDS supported 40 young people with multiple barriers to employment and/or who were at risk of engaging in crime to participate in an employability programme designed to support them to progress into employment. The College has now established a Cashback for Creativity Academy to continue this project. This employer focussed employability activity permeates all aspects of the work of the College and has been identified as a significant strength within programme design, organisation and timetabling, learning and teaching, estates strategy and facilities developments, student support arrangements and as a core strand of learner engagement activities. During 2017/18, all of this activity will be marketed under a new collaborative approach to aligning all of the services offered by the College to support our students and the wider community to gain employment. This new brand will be Future Talent@D&A. This will also provide a framework for the College to target employer sponsorship in return for a socially responsible recruitment service. Dundee and Angus College is itself a major employer and offers around 30 work placement opportunities per annum including those within learning and teaching and alongside our refectory, restaurant, commercial hairdressing salon, laundry, stock room, retail outlets, libraries, theatre and gym, swimming pool and leisure facilities. All placements are mentored by a member of staff who ensures that the work placement is valuable to the individual and that the skills developed are reflected on their CV on completion of the programme. Throughout the period of this agreement, the College will continue to identify and expand the areas where it can employ its own Modern Apprentices as vacancies and opportunities become available. It is very fitting that the first appointment that was made by the new college was a Modern Apprentice appointment to the role of Learner Engagement Assistant. Others have since been recruited in Customer Engagement, Estates and in HR. Further opportunities will be created during 2016/17 as employment opportunities arise. Work experience opportunities have increased significantly over recent years for students on full time programmes. Dundee and Angus College has supported businesses with project based placements, enabling the student to undertake a tangible business focussed project in areas such as web development, social media, marketing planning, financial support to help disadvantaged accounting etc. Annually, c400 full time students with the costs of undertaking career across 32 programmes undertake a work placement and related work experience where that work experience activities as an integral part of their programme of study. Dundee and Angus College is either unpaid, low paid or a platinum member of the student would incur additional costs associated with taking up the opportunityDundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce. This funding can be used to cover travel or accommodation (where the work location is not local) and/or dependant care costs incurred as a result of undertaking the work experience. This funding is required as the issues outlined above are often a barrier to students undertaking such opportunities. 9.7.4 We will mount a substantial initiative to form The regular networking events we host provide an 'incubation centre' for student companies supported by a range of internships. In its mature state the centre should support the formation of at least one student company for each broad discipline area. We will appoint a group of 'Access to Enterprise Fellows; to these companies and give them the responsibility for outreach to our target schools and colleges to talk about their experience and opportunity to encourage progression employers to higher education provide student placements. Working in partnership with Skills Development Scotland (SDS), industry organisations, employers, and to underline other agencies, the value College will ensure that we meet the demands of our regional workforce development pipelines, focusing on areas where there is employment growth forecasted within the region including: Care, Hospitality, Housing, Facilities Management, Accountancy, Business & Administration, Hairdressing, Horticulture, Construction , Motor Vehicle, Life Sciences, Engineering, Design Draughting, Sport, Leisure, Creative and importance of student enterpriseDigital Industries and Customer Service.

Employability. 9.7.1 We recognise MMU has recently carried out a major Employability Review which has identified a range of initiatives that a difficult economic climate exacerbates would improve the difficulties faced by students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the labour market. This is why we are increasing our investment in initiatives to enhance employment employability outcomes for our students. We believe that improving the outcomes for all students and is the best way to support graduates WP students, especially in our target light of the large proportions of undergraduates who are from OFFA countable groups. We will therefore further invest in our recentlya range of initiatives and monitor the impact this has on target groups through the new Strategy for Employability, Employment and Enterprise. Investment will include the following areas: i. MMU has introduced a Writing Project to support students in the development of their academic writing skills. This has been very successful and so will be expanded to enable more students to benefit and for support to be given in other areas such as numeracy. An on-piloted Internship Support Scheme designed line version will be developed which will then be used as part of a pre-entry initiative to „level support targeted students before they begin their course ii. We will increase the playing field‟ number of placement and work experience opportunities for students. In order to do this we will increase the support provided for securing and managing student placements and other work experience and thereby increase the numbers of target students from poorer backgrounds and enable them to take taking part in internships from which they would have otherwise been excluded. This will include work with professional groups with whom we have close links such as in law and medicine to negotiate „fair access‟ internship opportunitiesplacements. 9.7.2 We are also aware that one of iii. MMU has embedded employability in the key enablers curriculum for all undergraduates through the Employability Curriculum Framework. Additional resources (Skills on-line and Employability on-line) have been developed to achieving graduate-level employment is gaining relevant and high quality work support the student experience. We therefore propose to create will develop ‘Global Citizenship’ as a Centre unifying theme for employability related content within our Careers Service to lead on and alongside the further development curriculum. ‘Global Citizenship’ will encompass Internationalisation, sustainability, ethics, enterprise and entrepreneurship. iv. Micro businesses (1-9 employees) are a major part of the placementslocal economy and so supporting students develop their enterprise skills would be a valuable addition to their employability skills. We will therefore invest in training for staff and students in skills relating to enterprise and entrepreneurship v. Studying abroad, internships for any period of time, is a highly rewarding experience. Students returning from a study abroad programme frequently describe their experience as ‘life-changing’. It helps students develop and work experience mature both personally and academically, and can improve career prospects. Through the new International Strategy we will identify ways to enable a greater range of widening participation students to gain International experience. vi. The University has created the MMU Intern Scheme to offer employment opportunities within the University to our recent graduates. Through this scheme we aim to offer internships throughout the University. The scheme offers many of our graduates the opportunity to gain highly valuable experience of working either within a specific university department or across multiple departments. In addition the GradMatch internship scheme offers internships for graduates with local companies, and we also promote summer Internships for students. The In total we aim of this Centre will be to operate as an advice provide more than 100 internships each year vii. There is a Student Employability Development Programme that runs throughout the year and recruitment service for those seeking additional employability experience – be that as part of their course (Placements), as a paid Intern, or short-term career-related work experience (which may or may not be paid). The Centre will draw on the skills of experienced and qualified staff who are actively engaged with employers, includes two new programmes to support students in developing their employability skills, Work Ready (for undergraduates) and the academic staff who work with them while out on placementsGraduate to Work (for unemployed graduates). In addition, the University will provide financial support to help disadvantaged students addition we are engaging with the costs of undertaking career related work experience where that work experience is either unpaid, low paid or the student would incur additional costs associated with taking up the opportunity. This funding can be used to cover travel or accommodation (where the work location is not local) and/or dependant care costs incurred as a result of undertaking the work experience. This funding is required as the issues outlined above are often a barrier to students undertaking such opportunities. 9.7.4 We will mount a substantial initiative to form an 'incubation centre' for student companies supported by a range of internships. In its mature state the centre should support the formation of at least one student company for each broad discipline area. We will appoint a group of 'Access to Enterprise Fellows; to these companies and give them the responsibility for outreach to our target schools and colleges to talk about their experience and local SMEs to encourage progression them to higher education offer Internships, placements and to underline the value graduate opportunities for our students and importance of student enterprisegraduates.

Employability. 9.7.1 We recognise Our focus over the last eighteen months has been to use the opportunity of redesigning our undergraduate and postgraduate courses to embed employability and reposition our careers service and ‘Job Shop’. Our focus over the next eighteen months is to move beyond delivering pockets of activities out with the course and develop a fully integrated and scalable programme that makes a difficult economic climate exacerbates the difficulties faced by students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the labour market. This is why we are increasing our investment in initiatives to enhance employment outcomes for real impact on our students and their career aspirations and choices. Our Access to support graduates the Professions programme is the first introduction to students in our target groupsassociate schools and colleges network of our approach to employability. This year we have introduced our Employability and Enterprise Fortnight (EEF) which provides students with the opportunity to prepare themselves for entering into employment or starting up their own business. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ held over the two weeks were hosted by potential and current employers and include such areas as CV writing and interview skills. We will therefore further invest have reviewed our postgraduate taught portfolio, the overall aim was to develop and deliver flexible courses with a professional focus and, wherever possible professionally accredited. Employer involvement in our recently-piloted Internship Support Scheme designed to „level the playing field‟ for students from poorer backgrounds form of mentoring, internships, guest lectures and enable them to take part in internships from which they would have otherwise attendance at Careers Fairs has been excluded. This will include work with professional groups with whom we have close links such as in law strengthened and medicine to negotiate „fair access‟ internship opportunities. 9.7.2 We are also aware that one of the key enablers to achieving graduate-level employment is gaining relevant and high quality work experience. We therefore propose to create a Centre embedded within our Careers Service to lead on the further development of the placements, internships and work experience offer to our students. The aim of this Centre will be to operate as an advice and recruitment service for those seeking additional employability experience – be that as part of their course (Placements), as a paid Intern, or short-term career-related work experience (which may or may not be paid). The Centre will draw on the skills of experienced and qualified staff who are actively engaged with employers, to support students and the academic staff who work with them while out on placementsrefocused postgraduate taught portfolio. In addition, students who are considering setting up their own businesses have increased opportunities to participate in tailored workshops and development opportunities provided by our Enterprise Office. We recognise that learning takes place at different times, in different places and in different ways and we develop flexible approaches that enable students to learn in ways that are most effective for them. We are establishing options that will meet the University will provide financial support needs of the majority of our students. Our postgraduate students are normally mature students and employed in one of the professions. The primary motivation is to help disadvantaged students enhance or progress their careers. We are therefore developing modes that meet students’ study needs and gives flexibility in their study methods in order to avoid conflict with the costs of undertaking career related their other commitments such as work experience where that work experience is either unpaid, low paid or the student would incur additional costs associated with taking up the opportunityand family. This funding can be used to cover travel or accommodation (where the work location includes delivery of week-end courses and distance learning. Our postgraduate portfolio is not local) and/or dependant care costs incurred as a result of undertaking the work experience. This funding is required as the issues outlined above are often a barrier to students undertaking such opportunities. 9.7.4 We will mount a substantial initiative to form an 'incubation centre' for student companies supported by a range of internships. In its mature state the centre should support the formation of at least one student company for each broad discipline arealargely rooted in professional courses that drive employability and career success. We will appoint a group of 'Access work closely with employers and professional bodies, to Enterprise Fellows; to these companies and give them the responsibility for outreach to make sure our target schools and colleges to talk about their experience and to encourage progression to higher education and to underline the value and importance of student enterprisecourses meet, or indeed anticipate market demand.

Employability. 9.7.1 We recognise that the final measure of success for a difficult economic climate exacerbates the difficulties faced by student is progression into a satisfying graduate-level destination of their choice, and that this poses particular challenges for students from disadvantaged backgrounds under-represented groups. Employability continues to be a University priority for 2016-17 and the particular needs of students from under-represented groups for support in finding appropriate placements and work experience is a key focus. The University of Bath has an outstanding record for graduate employability. A major factor in this is the labour marketwork placement during the degree programme which about half of Bath’s undergraduates undertake. This is why However, data analysis from our Careers Advisory Service10 suggests that students from lower socio-economic groups would benefit from additional support and we are will undertake further analysis and qualitative research to explore the issues and evaluate strategies for increasing our investment in initiatives to enhance employment outcomes for our students and to support graduates in our target groupsenhancing engagement. We will therefore further invest in our recentlycontinue to offer bursaries to students from under-piloted Internship Support Scheme designed represented groups undertaking unpaid placements. Along with Student Experience Officers, Faculty-based Placement Officers will work closely with students to „level encourage them to take up placements and also engage with employers to identify suitable placements and internships, ensuring that the playing field‟ diverse skills of under-represented groups are recognised and valued. A range of online resources will be developed to support students applying for placements and to provide a framework for reflecting on and benefiting from the experience. The University’s Careers Advisory Service will continue to provide dedicated support for students from poorer backgrounds under-represented backgrounds, and enable them undertake research into supporting on- going student success and employability. Following changes in national schemes and evidence from our own institutional research we will continue to take part provide our financial support in internships from which they would have otherwise been excluded. This will include work with professional groups with whom we have close links such as in law and medicine to negotiate „fair access‟ internship opportunities. 9.7.2 We are also aware that one the form of the key enablers to achieving graduatecost-level employment is gaining relevant and high quality work experience. We therefore propose to create a Centre within our Careers Service to lead on the further development of the placements, internships and work experience offer to our students. The aim of this Centre will be to operate as an advice and recruitment service for those seeking additional employability experience – be that as part of their course (Placements), as a paid Intern, or shortof-term career-related work experience (which may or may not be paid). The Centre will draw on the skills of experienced and qualified staff who are actively engaged with employers, living bursaries to support students from low income families. We are reviewing our household income and other eligibility thresholds in the light of ongoing research on Bursary support and have allocated appropriate financial resources in this Agreement to increase the number of students we are able to support through raising the Household Residual Income to £25,000 for 2016-17 if the evidence base supports it. 8 ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇., 2006, Taking Student Retention Seriously ▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇ 9 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, R., Research to Investigate Peer Mentoring in UK Higher Education ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇.▇▇.▇▇/handle/1893/2290#.VVnBBblVhBc 10 The Graduate Employment Market 2011-12 and the academic staff who work with them while out on placements. In addition, the Destinations of Bath Graduates (2010-11) The University will provide financial support to help disadvantaged students with the costs award University of undertaking career related work experience where that work experience is either unpaid, low paid or the student would incur additional costs associated with taking up the opportunity. This funding can be used to cover travel or accommodation (where the work location is not local) and/or dependant care costs incurred as a result of undertaking the work experience. This funding is required as the issues outlined above are often a barrier Bath bursaries to students undertaking such opportunities. 9.7.4 on our full-time, campus- based, undergraduate and franchised Foundation Degree programmes from households with incomes at or below £20,00011 who also fall into one or more of the following categories: from low participation neighbourhoods; from a poorly-performing school; a care leaver; or in receipt of a means-tested benefit. We are assessing the value of using ACORN postcode datasets as an additional criteria. Eligible students on full-time, campus-based, undergraduate programmes and Foundation Degree campus-based programmes, who meet the criteria above, will mount be offered a substantial initiative to form an 'incubation centre' £3,000 bursary in each year of study, including any unpaid placement or study abroad period (pro-rata for student companies supported by a range of internships. In its mature state the centre should support the formation of at least one student company for each broad discipline areapart year placement periods). We will appoint also continue to maintain a group significant Discretionary Student Support Fund to provide additional bursary provision for our campus-based undergraduate students and our campus- based Foundation Degree students who experience a change in financial circumstances during their course of 'study, or who need to repeat a year due to extenuating personal circumstances. Early estimates indicate that between 50 - 70 students a year may qualify for support from the discretionary fund, indicating that a substantial figure in the region of £200,000 is required to maintain this provision. We have also allocated £100,000 for student hardship needs previously met through the Access to Enterprise Fellows; Learning Fund. The Bursary Scheme will also assist students from lower income families meeting our eligibility criteria who are studying on the franchised Foundation Degrees delivered in partnership with Action on Addiction with bursaries of £3,000 per annum awarded to these companies and give them eligible students, spread over the responsibility course of study for outreach part-time students. This bursary support will be reported in our annual report. We plan to offer awards totalling £180,000 to students from widening participation target groups wishing to undertake Postgraduate Taught degrees12 at the University. We do not wish to restrict this to progression for our target schools and colleges to talk about their experience and to encourage progression to higher education and to underline current undergraduates but rather open up opportunities for academically able students across the value and importance of student enterprisesector who could benefit from our offer.

Employability. 9.7.1 We recognise that a difficult economic climate exacerbates the difficulties faced by students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the labour market. This The College is why we are increasing our investment in initiatives committed to enhance employment outcomes for our students and to support graduates in our target groups. We will therefore further invest in our recently-piloted Internship Support Scheme designed to „level the playing field‟ for students from poorer backgrounds and enable them to take part in internships from which they would have otherwise been excluded. This will include work with professional groups with whom we have close links such as in law and medicine to negotiate „fair access‟ internship opportunities. 9.7.2 We are also aware that one of the key enablers to achieving graduate-level employment is gaining relevant and high quality work experience. We therefore propose to create a Centre within our Careers Service to lead on the further development of the placements, internships and work experience offer to our students. The aim of this Centre will be to operate as an advice and recruitment service for those seeking additional employability experience – be that as part of their course (Placements), as a paid Intern, or short-term career-related work experience (which may or may not be paid). The Centre will draw on the skills of experienced and qualified staff who are actively engaged with employers, to support students and the academic staff who work with them while out on placements. In addition, the University will provide financial delivering Employability support to help disadvantaged students with the costs of undertaking career related work experience where that work experience is either unpaid, low paid or the student would incur additional costs associated with taking up the opportunity. This funding can be used to cover travel or accommodation (where the work location is not local) and/or dependant care costs incurred as a result of undertaking the work experience. This funding is required as the issues outlined above are often a barrier to students undertaking such opportunities. 9.7.4 We will mount a substantial initiative to form an 'incubation centre' for student companies supported by a range of internshipsaudiences across Dundee and Angus. In its mature state The College will continue to build on successes delivered in 2018/19 including funding from DWP through low value procurement to provide targeted employability academies to ensure a pipeline of talent is available to meet specific industry demand for major local employers including Tesco and Interplex. Trust funded programmes will be targeted to support specific segmented groups of unemployed customers (e.g 45+ males) with a view to promoting a no barrier to learning approach utilising the centre should CommuniTAY bus Opportunities for collaboration have increased with the Prince’s Trust resulting in co funded Academies being delivered in Electrical Installation and Healthcare creating pathways to Modern Apprenticeships and employment. This collaboration will be expanded to support additional industry sectors in future. The College will continue to support unemployed clients into work e.g. Pre-employment Academies and Healthcare Academy (Dundee and Angus). Behavioural change continues to be an integral part of this provision, and College provision has been described by partners as unique, creating excellent results with impressive retention and engagement statistics. Our Discovery programme will continue to target individuals who are suffering entrenched worklessness to create progression on to a range of positive destinations. Weekly drop- in sessions provide peer support to ensure sustained new behaviours and progression. Partner pathways will be further developed in future to aid customer transition. These programmes support 100-150 candidates per annum to consider the issues that are preventing them getting a job and think in a different way about the steps that they can take to make key changes in their life to obtain a job. Dundee and Angus College is itself a major employer and offers many work placement opportunities per. All placements are mentored by a member of staff who ensures that the work placement is valuable to the individual and that the skills developed are reflected on their CV on completion of the programme. Throughout the period of this agreement, the College will continue to identify and support the formation employment of at least one student company for each broad discipline areaits own Modern Apprentices as vacancies and opportunities become available. We will appoint Dundee and Angus College is a group platinum member of 'Access to Enterprise Fellows; to these companies the Dundee and give them the responsibility for outreach to our target schools and colleges to talk about their experience and Angus Chamber of Commerce. The regular networking events we host provide an opportunity to encourage progression employers to higher education provide student placements. Working in partnership with Skills Development Scotland (SDS), industry organisations, employers, and other agencies, the College will ensure that we continue to underline meet the value demands of our regional workforce development pipelines, focusing on areas where there is employment growth forecasted within the region including: Care, Hospitality, Housing, Facilities Management, Accountancy, Business & Administration, Hairdressing, Horticulture, Construction , Motor Vehicle, Life Sciences, Engineering, Civil Engineering, Sport, Leisure, Creative/Digital Industries and importance of student enterpriseCustomer Service.

Employability. 9.7.1 We recognise that the final measure of success for a difficult economic climate exacerbates the difficulties faced by student is progression into a satisfying graduate-level destination of their choice, and that this poses particular challenges for students from disadvantaged non-traditional backgrounds. Employability continues to be a University priority for 2015-16 and the particular needs of students from non-traditional backgrounds for support in finding appropriate placements and work experience is a key focus. The University of Bath has an outstanding record for graduate employability. A major factor in this is the work placement during the degree programme which about half of Bath’s undergraduates undertake. However, data analysis from our Careers Advisory Service11 suggests that students from lower socio-economic groups would benefit from additional support and we will undertake further analysis and qualitative research to explore the issues and evaluate strategies for increasing and enhancing engagement. Bursaries will be offered to students from non-traditional backgrounds undertaking unpaid placements. Along with SEOs, Faculty-based Placement Officers will work closely with students to encourage them to take up placements and also engage with employers to identify suitable placements and internships, ensuring that the diverse skills of under-represented groups are recognised and valued. A range of online resources will be developed to support students applying for placements and to provide a framework for reflecting on and benefiting from the experience. The University’s Careers Advisory Service will continue to provide dedicated support for students from non-traditional backgrounds. The University achieved the Buttle Trust Quality Mark in 2012 and offers a full programme of outreach and retention activities to ensure that care leavers have the pre and post-entry support that is needed for successful progression to HE. In our 2012-13 Access Agreement we focused the greatest part of our financial support expenditure on fee waivers. However, national reports and consultations with local students’ organisations led us to reconsider our position. In our original plans we refined our support system to include a combination of fee waivers and bursaries. The recent changes to NSP provision enabled us to provide all our financial support in the labour marketform of cost-of-living bursaries to support students from low income families. This is why We have reviewed our household income and other eligibility thresholds and increased the number of students we are increasing our investment in initiatives to enhance employment outcomes for our students and able to support graduates in our target groupsthrough raising the Household Residual Income to £20,000 for 2014-15. We will therefore further invest in our recently-piloted Internship Support Scheme designed to „level monitor and review the playing field‟ for students from poorer backgrounds and enable them to take part in internships from which they would have otherwise been excluded. This will include work with professional groups with whom we have close links such as in law and medicine to negotiate „fair access‟ internship opportunities. 9.7.2 We are also aware that one of the key enablers to achieving graduate-level employment is gaining relevant and high quality work experience. We therefore propose to create a Centre within our Careers Service to lead University’s expenditure on the further development of the placements, internships and work experience offer to our students. The aim of this Centre will be to operate as an advice and recruitment service for those seeking additional employability experience – be that as part of their course (Placements), as a paid Intern, or short-term career-related work experience (which may or may not be paid). The Centre will draw on the skills of experienced and qualified staff who are actively engaged with employers, to support students and the academic staff who work with them while out on placements. In addition, the University will provide financial support in relation to help disadvantaged students with the costs of undertaking career related work experience where that work experience is either unpaid, low paid or the outreach and student would incur additional costs associated with taking up the opportunity. This funding can be used to cover travel or accommodation (where the work location is not local) and/or dependant care costs incurred as a result of undertaking the work experience. This funding is required as the issues outlined above are often a barrier to students undertaking such opportunitiessuccess on an ongoing basis. 9.7.4 We will mount a substantial initiative to form an 'incubation centre' for student companies supported by a range of internships. In its mature state the centre should support the formation of at least one student company for each broad discipline area. We will appoint a group of 'Access to Enterprise Fellows; to these companies and give them the responsibility for outreach to our target schools and colleges to talk about their experience and to encourage progression to higher education and to underline the value and importance of student enterprise.

Employability. 9.7.1 We recognise The College has undertaken a review and evaluated both the effectiveness and affordability of Skills Development Scotland Employability Fund courses. The outcome of this review is that the College will not deliver Employability Fund courses in Session 2016-17. It should be noted that the College delivers under the employability banner in many courses across the college. However the extended work experience element we delivered within the Employability Fund programmes is a difficult economic climate exacerbates crucial support mechanism for the difficulties faced by students from disadvantaged backgrounds more vulnerable learner and the more we can offer to scaffold transitions to employment the better; as the college, the learner and employer will all benefit. As such, two new courses have been developed in Construction and Retail, which will run for 18 weeks, and will provide learners with an extended 14 week supported work placement. The College plans to offer both courses with three different start dates through the session. The learners for this type of programme tend to be young people who are vulnerable and need additional support; they lack self confidence and self esteem, they have struggled in the labour marketschool environment and tend to be care experienced. This As such they do require more support both in college and when they are in the work place. By changing the programme to an 18 week programme opens up the student support services and funding to this group and allows us to recruit on this basis. Furthermore we have strong links with DWP and SDS as well as our LEP partners in identifying and reaching this group of young people. A significant project has been initiated within the College to help evidence and provide management information on the many forms of Employer Engagement undertaken by many staff within many areas of College activity. The aims of this project are to define what strands of Employer Engagement we will aim to collect, and how we will centrally collate, report and use this information. Linked to this project, the College is why we are increasing our investment in initiatives looking to enhance employment outcomes adopt an e-portfolio tracking system to be used for our students and to support graduates in our target groups. We will therefore further invest in our recently-piloted Internship Support Scheme designed to „level the playing field‟ for students from poorer backgrounds with Modern Apprentices and enable them to take part in internships from which they would have otherwise been excludedVQ Learners. This will include work with professional groups with whom we have close links such as in law and medicine to negotiate „fair access‟ internship opportunities. 9.7.2 We are also aware that one of the key enablers to achieving graduate-level employment is gaining relevant and high quality work experience. We therefore propose to create a Centre within our Careers Service to lead on the further development of the placements, internships and work experience offer to enable our students. The aim , their assessors and their employers improved access to track progress through their qualification, enable more effective communication, and enable a more efficient way of this Centre will be students to operate as an advice and recruitment service for those seeking additional employability experience – be that as part submit evidence of achieving milestones from their course (Placements)workplace, as a paid Intern, or short-term career-related work experience (which may or may not be paid). The Centre will draw on the skills of experienced and qualified staff who are actively engaged with employers, to support students and the academic staff who work with them while out on placements. In addition, the University will provide financial support to help disadvantaged students with the costs of undertaking career related work experience where that work experience is either unpaid, low paid or the student would incur additional costs associated with taking up the opportunity. This funding can be used to cover travel or accommodation (where the work location is not local) and/or dependant care costs incurred as a result of undertaking the work experience. This funding is required as the issues outlined above are often a barrier to students undertaking such opportunities. 9.7.4 We will mount a substantial initiative to form an 'incubation centre' for student companies supported by a range of internships. In its mature state the centre should support the formation of at least one student company for each broad discipline area. We will appoint a group of 'Access to Enterprise Fellows; to these companies and give them the responsibility for outreach to our target schools and colleges to talk about their experience and to encourage progression to higher education and to underline the value and importance of student enterprisereceive quicker feedback from assessors.