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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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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. Disciplinary and contextual differences must be recognised and cherished, and this will continue to be essential as we realise our vision of the Edinburgh Student.

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

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The BizPALS scheme has been recognised in the university for its successes with student study and pastoral support, so who better to work with than our well-established PALS network, notably our Student Senior Leader, Kate Schafferius , and Dr Lisa Nowak , the Students’ Association Peer Learning Coordinator.

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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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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.