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Let students lead their learning

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Apparently not, from the evidence of those who took part in the first SLICCs pilot in 2015. 20 or students designed their own 10 credit courses over the summer ranging from research projects that explored degree-related topics more deeply to projects for volunteering or during summer internships. Do they take the easy option?

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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). Harrington.

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Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs): Learning and teaching beyond disciplinary silos

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In comparison, the challenges for conducting interdisciplinary research seem to be at a lower level, for instance with the funding of a research grant, or as a student project – they are discrete and have clearly defined objectives. Furthermore, those resources of money and researchers, act as great enablers.

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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. There are currently more PhD students in the UK than at any time in the past. LERU March 2010).

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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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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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Academic Peer Learning

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Peer Support started at Edinburgh as a joint venture between Edinburgh University Students Association and the University of Edinburgh in September 2012 and since June 2015 has been running as the Department of Peer Learning and Support.