Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 9, 2017

It also seeks to enhance the learning and development opportunities these activities provide and encourage students to see the relevance of these activities in preparing them for their future. We wanted to engage pro-actively with the HEAR and use it to benefit student learning from co- and extra-curricular activity. Jan 9, 2017

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It is in this context that the University was awarded its first Key Action 203 Strategic Partnership funding by the European Commission in 2017 to develop the Network for Intercultural Competence to facilitate Entrepreneurship (NICE) in collaboration with 7 other European universities*.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Jobs are scarce and a university degree will no longer guarantee immediate employment. After we leave Higher Education, we apparently find ourselves pitted against each other, competing for those scarce job opportunities. Feb 1, 2017 I was reminded of an article I read at the very beginning of my studies in 2012.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 24, 2017

The award has democratised the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR), by allowing an increasing number of activities that can be included on the transcript as opposed to a limited selection of Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) related opportunities. Jan 24, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 1, 2018

Employment marks a point in time, and leaves our graduates at the mercy of labour market vagaries; employability is about a journey, equipping our graduates to navigate and succeed in this dynamic environment. ” This potentially leads us further into the “saying what we mean” territory….which

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

We offer up to 6 spaces within each cohort, and the students selected are ones who show a keen interest in working in Higher Education in the future. As well as their Peer Assisted Learning activities, the students attend and present at staff educational journal clubs. Photo attribution: vet school.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

Simon is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy. Current areas of responsibility include: the Edinburgh Award, SLICCs (Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses), Making Transitions Personal and the Development Hub. Mar 2, 2017

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

The strategic context Every four years, QAA Scotland undertakes a cycle of reviews of all Scottish higher education institutions, focusing on enhancing the student experience – this is called the Enhancement-Led Institutional Review, or ELIR. Aug 10, 2017

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Look out for a Student Wellbeing Teaching Matters mini-series in July and August 2019. The benefits of blogging for PhD students (25th May 2017) Blogging is increasingly being recognised as an established method of communicating academic writing. Their results were rather conclusive… 2.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 9, 2019

I still am a teacher in higher education, but I feel that my words do not have nearly as much impact as those of practising teachers when it comes to preparation for professional practice. I was a school teacher.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 13, 2017

The one-year Masters in a UK university is intensive; even more so for an international student in a new teaching and cultural environment. According to many large scale studies on student decision making and outlines in policy statements, higher education is a step towards enhancing career prospects: in order words, developing employability.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

While disciplines will continue to underpin the foundations of our knowledge, the issue of interdisciplinary learning and teaching is becoming increasingly relevant for universities preparing students for a changing world. Nonetheless, in the UK, higher education largely remains structured on a conventional, disciplinary basis.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

The most effective career education is embedded within what students are already doing – its relevance is clearer that way. Jan 10, 2017 More than that, I could probably have designed other activities which would have enhanced both their academic skills and their career readiness.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

A criticism sometimes made of institutional ‘students as partners’ projects is that they are limited to those who can spare the time and have the financial security to be able to volunteer (Matthews, Dwyer, Hine, & Turner, 2018, p. Conceptions of students as partners. Higher Education, 76, 957–971. Sep 12, 2019

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We have had over 140 students enrol on the programme and, so far, 22 have completed the programme in 2017, and 35 in 2018. A sub-set of 8 students have also successfully taken this a step further and, under staff mentorship, have achieved Associate Fellowship of the HEA.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. Following the Enhancement Theme, momentum around the co-curriculum continued and gave focus to improving awareness and accessibility for students.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 31, 2018

The conference is organised yearly by the Edinburgh University Careers Service , and gathers PhD holders who have transitioned into a wide range of occupations and are happy to share their experience with current students. I first attended the PhD Horizons conference in June 2017, when it was in its third edition.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

I was therefore keen to play a role in developing another online, interdisciplinary course based on my experiences and interests (for example, as is shared in this video that showcases part of the senate talk on research led-learning in May 2017), in addition to the numerous skills and networks I would gain and contribute to.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 25, 2017

Her role is to oversee IAD support for all the University’s researchers including doctoral students, research staff and technicians, principal investigators, supervisors and research leaders. May 25, 2017 You’ll see some overlap with my thoughts, but I’ll draw out one which has helped me to improve my blogging and writing.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Student-staff partnership is now a timeless concept and integral practice within Higher Education (HE) ( Bovill, 2019 ). Stemmed and unintended benefits to partnership working: Unsurprisingly, many of these projects spoke about several gains, but most notably these related to students’ employability skills.

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