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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Contextualising and embedding the skills and mindsets required for success The 2008-2011 Graduates for the 21 st Century Enhancement Theme added weight and momentum to our existing work developing the University’s Graduate Attributes and surfacing and embedding these in the student experience and degree programme and course descriptors.

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Surfacing and accelerating learning: introducing the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

It also seeks to enhance the learning and development opportunities these activities provide and encourage students to see the relevance of these activities in preparing them for their future. We wanted to engage pro-actively with the HEAR and use it to benefit student learning from co- and extra-curricular activity.

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Reflections of an Edinburgh Award tutor

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Since academic year 2011-12, when the Edinburgh award was launched, I’ve always asked the students in my award classes whether they agree with a statement from a paper by Simon Barrie, 2006; “ ….

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The power of the interdisciplinary

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Whether such pioneers remain provocateurs or pave the way for embedding interdisciplinary approaches to learning and teaching, it seems clear that students of the future will increasingly demand opportunities to learn in innovative ways. References: Blackmore, P., and Kandiko, C. Strategic Curriculum Change in Universities: Global Trends.

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Creating resilience through diversity, experimentation and pragmatism

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The qualities of resilience that we hope to develop in our students are also the sort of qualities that we as academics need to thrive in a habitus that is as defined by its perpetual change as it is by its endless cyclic repetition.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

We hope that once we have been able to do so, our students will graduate knowing how far they have come since joining the school. Rosalyn Claase Ros is Head of Student Experience, having joined the Business School in November 2011 as the Careers Manager. You can read the full PTAS report here.

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Mini-series: Student pathways to learning about sustainability

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

His current role includes responsibility for social responsibility and sustainability reporting, benchmarking, developing sector-wide and external partnerships, liaising with academic degree programmes and courses, as well as having oversight of the department’s outreach and student engagement activities. Jan 16, 2019