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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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Adaptive Comparative Judgment and the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Online Learning

I used ACJ twice during the Edinburgh Award, first for us to see and comment on other students’ work and for others to provide me with feedback on ways that I could improve my work, and then again at the end of the Edinburgh Award, where ACJ allowed me and my fellow students to peer assess our final work. All suggestions welcome!

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Developing graduate attributes in a landscape of practices

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Graduate attribute frameworks have long been part of the conversation in HE as universities endeavour to prepare students for the supercomplex future they face (Barnett, 2000). For these international students, their Masters is a high-stakes investment requiring negotiation of both an academic and professional identity. Hutchinson, S.,

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. It is cited as a reason for choosing the University of Edinburgh Business School.

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Welcome to the November issue of Teaching Matters: Student author month

Teaching Matters Academic Support

A flourishing field of student partnership work has recently emerged (e.g., Cook-Sather, Bovill and Felten, 2014), which critically discusses and reflects on how universities can involve students in roles that, ‘actively shape and enhance their experiences of learning and teaching’ (Healey, Flint and Harrington, 2014).

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Students as teachers: implementing the Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Dr Neil Hudson, Senior Veterinary Clinical Lecturer at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Director of the Undergraduate Certificate in Veterinary Medical Education reflects on the benefits of enabling undergraduate students to participate in teaching.

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Creating resilience through diversity, experimentation and pragmatism

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Given the rapid flux and dynamic nature of most commercial projects, employers within the creative industries also greatly appreciate diversity. This can be a hard concept to sell to a group of students who have come straight from secondary education with its culture of exams, league tables and a rigid binary notion of correct and incorrect.