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058 Inderjeet Hunjan |
click to read > 1. Mary: So Inderjeet, thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed. 2. Inderjeet: That's okay. 3. Mary: That's wonderful. Can you tell us what do you actually do in your job? What is your job? 4. Inderjeet: Okay. I have a very long title. 5. Mary: Okay. 6. Inderjeet: My title is Access and Community Development Manager. I have university-wide sort of responsibility. 7. Mary: Right. 8. Inderjeet: ...and I head up a small team of about eleven people and I suppose the main sort of aim of our job is to help each other for the university. 9. Mary: Okay. 10. Inderjeet: So what we do is we work with schools and colleges and also the grass root level community. 11. Mary: Right. 12. Inderjeet: ... in order to raise their aspirations into coming into higher education. 13. Mary: Okay. 14. Inderjeet: So ... so we do a lot of outreach work and we do bring in people to the university on like a taster day type activities, or we go out to schools and whoever wants us, we go there and facilitate activities. We work from primary school age group right to parents and carers as well. 15. Mary: Right okay, so trying to encourage people. 16. Inderjeet: To come to higher education. 17. Mary: ... to come, or just opening that door. 18. Inderjeet: Yeah that's right. 19. Mary: ... planting that idea in their mind. 20. Inderjeet: And within sort of ... in a year, we see about fifteen thousand young people. 21. Mary: Okay wow, is that ... 22. Inderjeet: So. 23. Mary: ... just within the city, within Leeds. 24. Inderjeet: No. 25. Mary: ...or do you go nation-wide or? 26. Inderjeet: No, no, we work. Yorkshire and Humber. 27. Mary: Right. 28. Inderjeet: ... but we go beyond that as well if people ring us up and, you know, we do go beyond that. 29. Mary: Do you come into contact with people from other cultures? 30. Inderjeet: We've done a student freshers' festival this year. 31. Mary: Right. 32. Inderjeet: ...which has been an absolutely fantastic thing. 33. Mary: Right. 34. Inderjeet: Whereas previously, you know, you just sort of brought in international students, you may host a big welcome event and that was it. And then the international department organised lots of different things, but I think this year we had a two week long freshers' festival. 35. Mary: Right. 36. Inderjeet: ... where we had a marquis put up at the other side at Headingley and there were a whole host of events happening every single day. 37. Mary: Right. 38. Inderjeet: And there were some that just specifically targeted international students, there were some targeting all the students including the international students. 39. Mary: Right okay. 40. Inderjeet: ... and making sure that they were totally mingled in with our host sort of students and I think that proved very, very positive and what they also did was equally bring in the community. Like we had lots of dance groups in. 41. Mary: Right. 42. Inderjeet: We had lots of different cuisines in. 43. Mary: Right. 44. Inderjeet: We had different sort of faith groups doing different things. 45. Mary: Right. 46. Inderjeet: ... and so hopefully the international students sort of feel yes we've got somebody like us that lives in this country. 47. Mary: Right absolutely, so feeling more part of something. 48. Inderjeet: Yes. 49. Mary: ... as opposed to ... 50. Inderjeet: That's right. 51. Mary: ... a bit on the edge. 52. Inderjeet: That's right. 53. Mary: Fascinating. 54. Inderjeet: Yeah. 55. Mary: Thank you. Okay. |
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