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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of student employability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Barrie, 2004:262 However, what I have noticed through practice is that this undoubtedly critical element of higher education are often still attempted to be “taught”. This is supported by international studies of the need for higher education environment to do more applied “living curriculum” (Bath, et al.,

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Evolution and revolution: preparing for the future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Minocha et al (2017)[1] provide a helpful overview of both conceptions in the UK policy context, for those who want to consider this further. ” This potentially leads us further into the “saying what we mean” territory….which which skills, understandings and attributes?

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. Taking a collaborative, whole-institution approach Following the 2004-2006 Employability Enhancement Theme, the Scottish Funding Council allocated each institution strategic funding to accelerate this agenda.