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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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PhD Horizons: What opportunities await at the end of a PhD and how to prepare for them

Teaching Matters Academic Support

This means that around 50% of PhD graduates are effectively going through a career change at the end of their degrees (with the exception perhaps of those who will go on to do research in private institutions). The PhD Horizons Careers Conference is a great place for PhD students to find out more about their future career options.

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Developing employability during a one-year Masters-level programme

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

This is the title of my PhD research. I successfully joined a research team at my School which focused on the area of my dissertation interest. This valuable experience was important for a future research career. Labake’s PhD research is exploring internationalisation of higher education and employability.

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Integrating the world of work into university

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Seeing the imperfections, assumptions and short-cuts needed to implement research into practice is revelatory to students. The careers service is directly involved in this course delivery with our school’s Careers Consultant providing valuable input during the initial stages.

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Evolution and revolution: preparing for the future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Minocha et al (2017)[1] provide a helpful overview of both conceptions in the UK policy context, for those who want to consider this further. Developing the employability and graduate attributes of our students is consistent with research-led learning and teaching. which skills, understandings and attributes?

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Co-creation and collaboration in course design: Our journey with SACHA

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Change Agents in a storytelling workshop with the Careers Service and Edinburgh Innovations. Ankita Chattopadhyay is a recent graduate with an MSc by Research (MScR) in Infection Medicine (Biomedical Sciences). Faculty are busy with teaching and research, making it hard to find time for collaborative curriculum design.

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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. Omolabake Fakunle Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle is a MSc Educational Research graduate and current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Aug 10, 2017