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Support at scale: School-wide support for postgraduates who teach

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Managing tutors and demonstrators on a large scale can be challenging, but also rewarding for both students and the School. As a result of on going discussion at about contract security, it became clear in the 2015-2016 academic session that improvements were needed. Apr 11, 2017

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Interdisciplinary teaching: Rock-solid preparation for professional life

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Credit: unsplash, @vidarnm, CC0 On a wonderfully sunny day in June 2016, I graduated with an honours degree in Geology and Physical Geography. That is how I came across the MSc Carbon Management course at Edinburgh University. The Carbon Management syllabus is made up of three pillars: Science, Business and Economics.

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

How are school teaching staff and resources supported and managed to enable interdisciplinary teaching to occur? How can use of these resources be recognised, managed and transferred to reflect the teaching delivery? The scope for student agency is significant, with students defining their own unique learning experiences.

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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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Helping students with their studies

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The note of concern mechanism allows any student or member of staff to bring inadequate professional behaviours, health and well-being concerns or performance issues of any student to the attention of the student support management group (SSMG). Nominations are considered by the student support management group.

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The ‘other side’ of the university: Employ.ed on Campus Internship

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Adapting to the workplace is something that I believe has to be learnt through experience, and I am confident I will leave university having picked up lots of the transferable skills necessary for starting a career, such as planning, organisation and time management. Aug 1, 2016 internships.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

When it came to the Undergraduate Programmes, which are structured and managed differently, in addition to being at greater scale, we needed to take a different approach. 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.