Personal Effectiveness and Employability
Through the Arts (PEETA)
Specification for External Evaluation
Background
PEETA is a pan-European project funded by a Transfer
of Innovation Award via the EU Lifelong Learning Programme
and a donation from the Medicor Foundation in Lichtenstein.
The innovation being transferred is Supporting Employability
and Personal Effectiveness (SEPE), a new BTEC qualification
being offered by Edexcel and Superact. The SEPE award
is designed to help those who may find accessing traditional
routes to employability challenging, to build confidence
and gain a meaningful qualification. It is also hoped
that in taking this qualification students will develop
a passion for learning through the unique holistic delivery
of this course. These qualifications are designed to
help learners to gain and retain a job, and then to advance
in the workplace, through development of the soft skills
that employers are looking for: adaptability, a ‘can
do’ attitude and objectivity about strengths and
weaknesses. The SEPE award is designed to help those
who may find accessing traditional routes to employability
challenging, to build confidence and gain a meaningful
qualification. It is also hoped that in taking this qualification
students will develop a passion for learning though this
is not the primary objective.
The qualification is being tried in five prison settings
across Europe: Netherlands and Italy (completed) and
Portugal, Austria and Turkey (just getting underway).
In each country there is a project partner responsible
for the delivery of the Award in a prison. As the lead
partner, Superact is responsible for project management
and the training of the in-country artists working in
each prison.
The project ends with an international conference in
the Netherlands next September. Further details on the
award and some initial feedback from Italy and the Netherlands
can be found in the attached ‘Case Study’ note
and via the project website
Full details of this evaluation can be downloaded here (doc
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