An investigation into international best practice: in facilitating the transition of tertiary education students with disabilities into their post-graduate careers [EIP 03/10]

While evidence suggests that tertiary education and training improve access to employment, tertiary graduates with disabilities experience lower levels of employment than their non-disabled peers.  This project undertook to investigate the reasons why graduates with disabilities are not achieving employment rates comparable to their peers, and suggest practical strategies that have proven themselves effective in addressing such issues.  To do this, a literature review was undertaken to identify the issues that prevented career access for graduates with disabilities and what strategies were being used to address this.  This was followed by a series of interviews with representatives of various programmes in the United Kingdom and Australia to ascertain first hand what they considered to be effective practice in assisting graduates achieve enhanced career outcomes.  The findings from these interviews were then combined with the findings of the literature review to arrive at a model of effective policy and practice across three tiers of the Australian graduate careers sector - namely that of public policy, cross sectoral networking and collaboration and graduate career advisory service delivery.

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