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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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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. 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.

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

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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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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New evidence on the challenges and consequences of precarious work for university students

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Mooney (2016), for example, criticizes the fact that hospitality management takes a ‘dispassionate’ attitude toward casually employed students, failing retention. UK research further highlights sexist and discriminatory attitudes in the industry ( Ineson et al , 2013 ; Maxwell and Broadbridge, 2014 ).

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Mini-series: Water Logic: Designing for sustainability along the Union Canal

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

T he mini-series hopes to capture a breadth of activities happening across campuses, to inspire staff and students to participate and expand on current offerings. The course is firmly embedded in a tangible place and contexts, encouraging students to start defining their own investigative agendas.

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Welcome to the May issue of Teaching Matters on the PhD experience

Teaching Matters Academic Support

. … One in five employers said that doctoral graduates were business critical – without them their business could not function (The impact of doctoral careers, CFE Research on behalf of the UK funding councils, 2014).