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Title: Deaf and Successful Career Destinations of Deaf Graduates


1
Deaf and Successful Career Destinations of Deaf
Graduates
  • Joan Fleming and
  • John A. Hay
  • University of Wolverhampton

2
Dorothy Miles Poet 1931 - 1993
  • ..If she had not become deaf.
  • She should never had the grammar school
    education .the scholarship to
  • Gallaudet ( University).
  • had she been hearing she would have been what
    her mother called, just another ten a penny
    tin-pot office girl. Sutton-Spence ( 2005)

3
The context
  • Deaf students who use sign language as primary
    communication have been entering HE since the
    middle of the
  • 20th Century
  • The explosion of applications has mirrored the
    creation of
  • Disabled Students Allowance 1990

4
Support Services Required
  • In order to access Higher Education Deaf Students
    have required qualified key workers
  • Sign Language Interpreters
  • Lip-speakers
  • Manual note-takers
  • Electronic note-takers
  • Support tutorials
  • Administrators

5
CHESS
  • The Consortium of Higher Education Support
    Services ( CHESS) was developed by the Deaf
    Universities in 1992
  • UCLAN, Bristol, Derby, Sheffield Hallam, City,
    Nottingham Trent and Wolverhampton were the
    original members
  • Deaf Students tend to go where services are
    efficient and where they can be with Deaf peers
  • SENDA 2000/01 means that all universities must
    address all issues of access

6
Impetus for our research and questions which
remained
  • J.T.E. Richardson
  • (2002) examined Deaf Students' perceptions
    of HE - Findings published 2004
  • Via CeLT we researched their learning strategies
    in HE Findings published 2003
  • We asked ourselves Why there is a perception in
    the Deaf Community that Deaf Students do not
    succeed?
  • We looked for a specific study into deaf graduate
    career destinations as yet none

7
Aims and research projects
  • We aim to explore the connection between HE
    qualifications and career destinations by four
    mechanisms
  • 1. We created case studies by following the
    career paths of the graduates of 2000
  • 2. We are examining the significance of numbers
    of all deaf HE students ( BSL and Non-BSL users)
  • 3. We are comparing general graduate career
    destinations with those of deaf graduates

8
Deaf Applicants declaringCode 3 UCAS Statistics
  • Deaf and Partially Deaf
  • Numbers available
  • 2001 - 868
  • 2002 - 875
  • 2003 - 900
  • 2004 897
  • 2005 1,078

9
Students who are BSL users from the Deaf
Community
  • We obtained figures compiled by the CHESS
    Universities mentioned earlier
  • Collectively CHESS universities have supported
    an average of 200 BSL users per year since 1996,
    at Levels ( years) one, two and three
  • They also report that there is a low drop out
    rate

10
Degree classifications of all UK graduates
1998/99 ( HESA)
  • Classification Percentage
  • First Class 7.9
  • Upper second 2.1 42.4
  • Lower second 2.2 35
  • Third class 7.9
  • Unclassified 6.9

11
Degree Classifications of the Wolverhampton Class
of 2000 ( All BSL users)
  • BSL users graduating Year 2000 - 10 graduates
  • Degree classifications and other qualifications
  • First class degree - 0
  • Upper second 2.1 - 9
  • Lower second 2.2 - 0
  • Third class - 0
  • Unclassified - 0
  • HE Diploma - 1

12
Their degree areas (taken from Communication
Support Tutorial records 1997 - 2000)
  • Engineering and Built Environment - 2
  • Computer Aided Product Design - 1
  • Computer Science - 1
  • Environmental Science and Sports Studies - 1
  • Digital and Electronic Media with Photography
    and/or Deaf Studies 3
  • Deaf Studies and or Linguistics - 3
  • Arts for Society - 1

13
Their first destinations reported to us 2000/05
  • A national engineering company - 1
  • A city council surveyors department -1
  • Successful self employment in a design studio - 1
  • Delay followed by web design agency 1-
  • Leaving of Environmental Sciences then entering
    broadcasting - 1
  • Employed in television or web design 3

14
Continued
  • Media company - 1
  • Freelance research in HE for a consortium and
    London galleries - 1

15
Where are they now and how did they do it?
  • The 2000 graduates - have they retained career
    status?
  • Yes
  • www.artsigns.ac.uk
  • www.signpostbsl.com
  • www.bbc.co.uk/seehear/
  • www.deafandcreative.ac.uk

16
Suggested Factors involved in deaf graduates
entry to the workplace
  • Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and subsequent
    amendments
  • Creation of the Disability Rights Commission
  • Access to Work schemes
  • Official recognition of BSL
  • Higher Education with satisfactory results

17
Useful contacts
  • J. T.E. Richardson
  • www.iet.open.ac.uk
  • The authors
  • www.wlv.ac.uk
  • Careers destinations
  • www.prospects.ac.uk

18
Thank you
  • J.A.Hay_at_wlv.ac.uk
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