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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

One of our longest standing collaborations is in a third-year Kinesiology course, where I co-present workshops with a Career Services Coordinator demonstrating how students can apply their strengths to a job in their field. By: Liana Acri. What is CliftonStrengths? I also worked with faculty to build custom workshops for their courses.

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Developing students’ career resilience – a university wide approach?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Walker et al (2006) have demonstrated that it is both possible and desirable to design learning experiences that foster resilience, and certainly the post-workshop responses indicated a positive shift amongst the student participants. Before retraining as a careers adviser, Lynsey was Lecturer in French at the University of Nottingham.

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Career Development Planning

Teaching Matters Student Employment

CC0 Teaching the Career Development Planning course, a compulsory non-credit bearing course for second year undergraduates in the Business School, has its challenges. The student cohort is large and diverse with students at all stages of career planning. 2006): How assessment frames student learning in C. References: Brophy, J.

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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. The University avoided the trap of seeing employability as solely a Careers Service responsibility, and instead used this funding to support an institution-wide and collaborative approach.

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The Higher Education Council (HEC) in Bahrain: Ensuring Quality and Excellence in Higher Ed Institutions

Creatrix Campus

In 2006, the HEC was established as a government body responsible for overseeing and regulating higher education in Bahrain. This post is all about HEC - let’s explore its doings, step-by-step process, the committee involved in accreditation, and how institutions like yours should prepare to attain a good grade.

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Understanding the purpose and role of the CAA UAE in higher education

Creatrix Campus

What is the commission for academic accreditation (CAA)? What is the commission for academic accreditation (CAA)? CAA is UAE’s official higher education quality assurance organization. Even the Degree programs offered by federal (government-run) institutions are now also accredited.

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Chemistry: from Concept to Consumer

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

McCarthy & McCarthy (2006) demonstrated that business students gained enhanced career awareness from immersion in real life scenarios such as hands-on problem solving and work shadowing (compared to employer presentations or written case studies). They often ask: (a) What jobs could a chemist do? (b) McCarthy & Henry M.