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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”. References Barrie, S. A research‐based approach to generic graduate attributes policy, Higher Education Research & Development , 23:3,261-275. and Swann, R.

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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

For work supporting students’ development, employability, and success, the Enhancement Themes have helped us emphasise and progress key areas that have been critical to our journey so far and that will continue to be essential as we look at transforming our curriculum and student experience for the future… 1.

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GeoScience Outreach Course: Assessment through impactful student projects

Teaching Matters Online Learning

We hope the legacy of the Geoscience Outreach course is still contributing to its continuing influence since 2004. And for the University: Have we enhanced the University’s reputation and loosened the boundaries between ‘town and gown’? Kay Douglas Kay is a Schools Liasion Associate for the School of GeoSciences.