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How did your course at the University of Worcester prepare you for future employability?

Just like any other course you are expected to meet deadlines for work. So we’d be given a brief, and would have to read and interpret that brief, and then to produce a piece of work. You would have two months approximately to get that work processed and handed in. Along with the work we are were expected to do, as a visually impaired student I had to personally organise my own support in terms of the getting in touch with the Disability Service to arrange support people to read books in the library to me (because everything is very auditory to me, I have to hear people read books).

I also had to talk to people to get the results that I wanted, for example, if I wanted to arrange tutorials, which was key for me on my course. I really made use of tutorials, and it was that ‘one to one’ support that really, really helped me to get a good grade on my degree.

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Working under pressure and having a disability is very stressful. I personally found this when I was working in groups on my course for presentations coming up in a month’s time. I would know I would have a very tight deadline. The difference, the divide between me and my other group members, was being able to do the work - but also getting the support around me I needed to complete the same work as others. As a visually impaired person, I found that very stressful. I think if there was ways of finding out how to develop strategies, or think of ways around time pressures, or quicker ways of getting things done, then that would relieve the stress that a visually impaired person or perhaps indeed anybody with a disability would experience.