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PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals Information Session

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris launched a €9 million fund for higher education institutions to improve access to higher education for students with an intellectual disability.
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are being asked for three-year proposals on how they can improve access and enhance course provision for students with intellectual disabilities.

The funding falls under phase 2 of PATH 4 of the National Access Plan which highlighted the need to improve and increase representation in higher education for students with a disability including students with autism and students with intellectual disabilities.
An information session was held by the HEA on the 11th July to discuss the proposal and to answer any questions people might have.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Presentation of the Information Session

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PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

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PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session 4

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session 5

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session 6

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session 7

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session 10

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session 14

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here

PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals HEA Information Session 17

Please share these materials with any colleagues who might find them relevant.

Furthermore, the HEA and INHEF will be publishing the presentation on their respective websites.

All the questions submitted in advance and discussed during the session will be collated in an FAQ document, which will be published in early August. If you have any additional questions to be included in the FAQ document, please submit them by Friday, 28 July 2023.

An easy read version of the Call for Proposals and Student Principles will be made available in due course.

Click Here
View a recording of the information session here
PATH 4 Phase 2 Information Sessions FAQs
See PATH 4 Call for Proposals here
See Easy to Read PATH 4 Call for Proposals here

Minister Harris launches €9 million funding for students with intellectual disabilities

Nicolae Buza – Graduate Maynooth University, Inclusive Learning Initiative.

Nicolae Buza – Graduate Maynooth University, Inclusive Learning Initiative.

Left: Niamh Biddulph – graduate Trinity College Dublin, Certificate in Arts Science and Inclusive Practice Right Stephen Ryan - graduate Trinity College Dublin, Certificate in Arts Science and Inclusive Practice

Left: Niamh Biddulph – graduate Trinity College Dublin, Certificate in Arts Science and Inclusive Practice Right Stephen Ryan - graduate Trinity College Dublin, Certificate in Arts Science and Inclusive Practice

Call for Proposals document.
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris launched a €9 million fund for higher education institutions to improve access to higher education for students with an intellectual disability.

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are being asked for three-year proposals on how they can improve access and enhance course provision for students with intellectual disabilities.

The funding falls under phase 2 of PATH 4 of the National Access Plan which highlighted the need to improve and increase representation in higher education for students with a disability including students with autism and students with intellectual disabilities.

An information session will be held on zoom from 11 am to 12:30 pm on Tuesday, 11 July 2023.
This session aims to provide an understanding of the process and address any questions people might have.

HEIs are invited to submit questions on the PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals ahead of the Information Session to access@hea.ie by 7 July.

We kindly request that you register for the Information Session in advance using this link:

Register for the Information Session

 

HEIs are invited to submit questions on the PATH 4 Phase 2 Call for Proposals ahead of the Information Session to access@hea.ie by 7 July 2023. All questions, including those raised at the Information Session event, and responses will be collated and published as an FAQ on the HEA’s website.

Click here to read the full Press Release

Online presentation – The road to employment: Trinity College’s programme for people with intellectual disabilities

Inclusion Europe invites the team of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID) to present what the centre is about and how it helps people with intellectual disabilities to find meaningful employment.

The Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (TCPID) is situated within the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin. They provide a post-secondary University programme for students with intellectual disabilities.

The core mission of the TCPID is to address the significant educational and societal barriers experienced by people with intellectual disabilities by providing an innovative high-quality higher education programme, enabling the transition to meaningful employment and/or further education after graduation.

Real and meaningful employment opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities are transforming lives – the life of the person themselves, the lives of their families, the lives of the mentors and teams within the businesses and the lives of the wider community.

Having people of all abilities in the workplace helps to create a greater reflection of the world around us and helps to encourage greater inclusion in all aspects of society.

Marie Devitt (TCPID Employment Pathways Coordinator) and Hugo MacNeill (TCPID Ambassador) will give an overview of their innovative TCPID programme and their partnerships with businesses. Sadbh Feehan (TCPID Graduate Intern) will present about her own experiences, as a students in Trinity College Dublin and more recently as a graduate intern.

Register Here
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HEA Consultations

Following on from the in-person consultations with students and graduates with intellectual disabilities the Higher Education Authority (HEA) are holding online consultations on access to college for people with intellectual disabilities. Attached is information for circulation. The HEA would like to talk to people with intellectual disabilities who have NOT gone to college and parents and supporters of people with intellectual disabilities.

They have scheduled the following consultations. Please follow the link to register for the event.

People with intellectual disabilities who have not attended university/college
Date: 12th May at 10am (An additional session may be held at 11am)

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldeyhqj0tHdEW5j_lfSgU8CV3oBEaHK5m

Parents or supporters of students/graduates with intellectual disabilities
Date: May 9th at 5pm

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpd-GgqjstGNMkepDXvDDVcFATLBgI3Zjx

Parents or supporters of people with intellectual disabilities who have not attended university/college
Date: May 10th at 5pm

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvd-utrDwrHN1jM2A1_0-1lohDZTMWM7TZ

Further information is available here

UDL International Symposium

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for addressing the educational needs of diverse and variable learners in many settings across many stages of life. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who wants to implement the UDL framework in a learning environment. 

The purpose of this inaugural UDL International Conference is create an opportunity for those at all stages of their UDL journey to come together and share their learning.  We invite those using UDL in their practice, researchers, and experts across a variety of educational and inclusion settings to facilitate workshops where we can further develop our knowledge, understanding and practice of UDL.

This year’s symposium will be an in-person event, hosted by  Maynooth University on Thursday June 8 and Friday June 9 2023. 

Click here for more details
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