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‘So your degree; what are you going to do with that? Do you want to become a teacher?’: Employability in HCA

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Since then, in close cooperation with the Careers Service, we have been rolling out a School-wide project to situate careers and employability alongside our firm commitment to academic rigour. We encourage our Student Societies to engage with this agenda through (modest) financial, academic and professional support.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Through the peer networks that the structures of the award facilitate, we find that it helps strengthen the bonds and relationships within and across the Programmes and the school, as well as enhancing students’ confidence and belief in their skills. This funded the time to undertake a mapping exercise across all of our undergraduate courses.

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How can our Graduate Attributes inform programme and course development? Challenges and opportunities

Teaching Matters Student Employment

What evidence do we have to show our students develop these graduate attributes? Perhaps the best is that our graduates are highly regarded and sought after by employers, and the continued successes of our alumni. Jan 16, 2017 Gavin co-leads the development of SLICCs institution-wide with Simon.

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GeoScience Outreach: teaching science communication ‘beyond the programme’ and outside of the ‘Ivory Tower’

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This is how the Geoscience Outreach course is enriching the attributes with which students graduate from their university programmes to enter into the professional world – allowing them to explore a diverse range of future career paths. Feb 28, 2017 Joyful work at the allotment with Trinity Gardening Club.

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Integrating the world of work into university

Teaching Matters Student Employment

She is the link Careers Consultant for the Moray House School of Education ( Suzanne.Agnew@ed.ac.uk ) Nov 30, 2017 dave.saunders@ed.ac.uk ) Suzanne Agnew Suzanne works at the University of Edinburgh Careers Service.

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Joël Reland Joël graduated from Edinburgh in 2017 with an MSc in International Political Theory. Whilst writing her postgraduate dissertation on the ethics of the Anthropocene, she completed a traineeship at the International Center for Climate Governance in Venice, Italy.

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Working with alumnae teachers to prepare student teachers for professional practice

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Students learn about this approach in taught sessions and are then joined by former students who share their experiences and advice on how they have managed to put the approach into practice.