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Developing employability during a one-year Masters-level programme

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Importantly, it might be that a student reading this piece might need to explore a bit further the array of EDOs at the university and beyond during their studies… Next steps: Find out how the Careers Service can help students find employability development opportunities What does it mean to be a University of Edinburgh Graduate?

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Careers consultants dip into their practitioners’ toolbox to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and prompt reflections on what is – and what could be. “Workforce of the Future: The Competing Forces Shaping 2030” [link] UKES (2014). link] Valentine, R., Stringer H.,

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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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Adaptive Comparative Judgment and the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Online Learning

” Briana Pegado (final year student 2013/14 and EUSA President 2014/15) The success of these early trials encouraged further pilots on several large mainstream courses across the University to evaluate the impact this may have on students in developing a deeper understanding of how to effectively use assessment and feedback in their learning.

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It wasn’t something that was ever taken lightly,” Rasmussen said in an email, recalling a “lengthy” and “deliberative” decision-making process while he served on the board from 2014 to 2018. But doing so might pose new questions for a college that mostly admits students directly from high school.

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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Working with colleagues from across the Business School and the Careers Service, we have been able to shape a version of the Edinburgh Award in Professional Development targeted at our second year students. She is a certified Coach, PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner and NLP Practitioner.

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Training and support for postgraduate students who teach (PGWT)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

She makes presentations at many university events, international conferences and was awarded the Best Presenter at the 2014 EUSA Internationalisation Conference. Congruent with her academic and research interests, currently, Labake works as an assistant tutor at the School of Education and PhD Intern at the Careers Services.