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Developing students’ career resilience – a university wide approach?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

These in-depth interviews were to reveal attitudes to resilience, the culture across the university and in the workplace, and to explore whether systemic change is required to foster greater resilience amongst students. References: Haushofer, J (2016): ‘CV of Failures’. Stefan, M (2010): ‘A CV of Failures’. Educational Studies.

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Creating the Study Hub with students as consultant partners

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Employing an undergraduate as an intern falls outside traditional views of student and staff roles because it transforms the student into an employee in a department alongside permanent members of staff. Fortunately, at The University of Edinburgh, the Careers Service have made it easy to do. The Employ.ed Grandidge, M.

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History for the future: the new pre-honours curriculum in History

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In summer 2016, the History Subject Area embarked on the largest overhaul of its curriculum in a generation. History’s new curriculum ensures that high academic standards are not only maintained but also progressively improve over the course of a student’s degree. At the same time, we have incorporated a new awareness of employability.

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Helping students with their studies

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In previous years the Chaplaincy, counselling service, careers service, and security services have taken part. As the Vet School is located on a satellite campus, this event is a great way to showcase further support services the University offers and how to access them. Mar 14, 2017

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Adaptive Comparative Judgment and the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Online Learning

With a background in statistical epidemiology, international development, careers advice and higher education projects, he is now responsible for supporting institutional strategy and initiatives relating to studentsemployability, development and graduate attributes, as well as fostering associated local-level activities and enhancements.

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Training and support for postgraduate students who teach (PGWT)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In 2016/17, Focus On took the postgraduate research (PGR) student experience as its theme, an important aspect of which was postgraduates who teach. Congruent with her academic and research interests, currently, Labake works as an assistant tutor at the School of Education and PhD Intern at the Careers Services.

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Employability and experiential learning

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

2016) Adventurous learning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53(6), 1024-1037. [6] 6] Chapman, S., McPhee, P., & Proudman, B. 1995) What is Experiential Education? In Warren,K. (Ed.), The Theory of Experiential Education (pp. 235 – 248). Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. [7] 7] Beames, S. & & Brown, M.