Nihaya Al-Othmani - Southworks

The arrangements were well organized. Our hosts were very accommodating and took into consideration the groups requests at all times. I found the people very friendly and hospitable. The young people were keen to show us their work, seemed eager and enjoyed learning. The atmosphere in the vocational school was informal and relaxed. Suggestions: Staff of Autistic School can come to get a placement and experience exchange at some school of special education need - such as the Spa School or Snowfields school at South East London. Student group to volunteer from Balekesir for one week. Possible an exchange with students to do work placement at Southwark Works, where they can have a good ideas about the labor market in UK.

They might be given some tasks to do or to shadow some of our advisers. By this way they will be able to have an idea about how to conduct one to one advice session in relating to preparing job seekers, who are not job ready or inactive or who lived for a long time on social benefits and they have no experience or have no self esteem or confidents, helping them to have work experience, training or voluntary work to be able to work in their fields of expertise or to change their careers. Those students or candidate would be placed in family houses instead of hotels.

By this way they will learn about British Culture and life style beside the work experience Possible an exchange with students to do work placement at Southwark Works, to learn about labor market here, They might get support from a family they are going to live with in London for this period of time. By this way they can learn something about the culture and about the labor market.