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

SRHE

Based on findings from the project ‘Learning from Labour: Critical Pedagogy for Working Students’ carried out at Middlesex University in 2022-2023, the study explores the educational and employment challenges faced by working students in UK post-92 universities ( MDX News, 2023 ).

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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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Developing graduate attributes in a landscape of practices

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Reaching such an understanding involves identifying the factors which enable, but also constrain, students’ development of these attributes. The research participants were from the MSc Language Education programme. 2014) Learning in landscapes of practice. 1998) Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity.

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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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Mini-series: What is a living lab?

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In the Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability, we collaborate with researchers and students across the University, and partner with the Edinburgh Living Lab. Students work over 11 weeks to research the problem and come up with solutions, liaising with the department to ensure the context has been fully understood.

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

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In the 20 th century, the PhD was essentially an academic apprenticeship based entirely on a supervised research project. There are currently more PhD students in the UK than at any time in the past. LERU March 2010). We hope that you enjoy this edition of Teaching Matters and encourage you to get involved. May 2, 2017

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Developing employability during a one-year Masters-level programme

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

But, at a personal level, how does an international student perceive they develop their employability during a one-year Masters-level study in a UK university? This is the title of my PhD research. However, this blog post is a reflexive piece about developing my employability during my Masters programme. Jan 13, 2017