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Developing a Strengths-Based Campus: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Supporting Student Success

It was early in 2017 when our Student Life department received the approval we had been waiting for – we were embarking on a journey to make the University of Guelph-Humber a CliftonStrengths campus and I was tasked with leading the project. By: Liana Acri. The goal was every student would receive an access code by the 2020-21 academic year.

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Welcome to the January issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The focus for January is employability, introduced by the Director of the University’s Careers Service, Shelagh Green. Jan 4, 2017 Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. We also run an events listing page.

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Are institutions leveraging their alumni to their full potential? Here’s how they can

University Business

The skills students possess aren’t communicated well, and colleges’ in-house career services struggle to demand attention. The engagement dinner has since expanded students’ internship and career pipeline since 2017. For Dore, alumni are the perfect candidates to broker conversation between the two.

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Getting a taste for work: Internships at the University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Encourage organisations to offer internships and refer them to the Careers Service. Recommend the Careers Service to offer advice about internship best practice. She has worked in Careers and Employability for the last 10 years and is passionate about student work experience and internships. Jan 12, 2017

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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

CC0 [Pixabay] For a number of years now, the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) has been working closely with the Careers Service to help address the question every arts and humanities students faces at some point in their career: ‘So your degree; what are you going to do with that?

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Integrating the world of work into university

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The careers service is directly involved in this course delivery with our school’s Careers Consultant providing valuable input during the initial stages. This aims to help students see the value of the attachment experience post-graduation and understand how to maximise the experience for their future career.

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Creating the Study Hub with students as consultant partners

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Fortunately, at The University of Edinburgh, the Careers Service have made it easy to do. is a paid scheme, and this appears to have resulted in greater diversity; in 2016-17 a fifth of interns were from widening participation backgrounds, and in 2017-18 the proportion increased to around a third (Careers Service, 2019).