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Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & EmployabilityManager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of studentemployability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.
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.
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?’
Gavin is the Careers and EmployabilityManager 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.
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 ).
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.
. … 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).
seeking and establishing communication with the course organiser, and communicating student comments and contributing their own views. sharing any concerns about students to their line manager/colleague responsible for PGWT. Labake’s PhD research is exploring internationalisation of higher education and employability.
We introduced the UCVME in 2014 as we wanted to formally recognise the important role our students play in our teaching and learning processes. We have had over 140 students enrol on the programme and, so far, 22 have completed the programme in 2017, and 35 in 2018.
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