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Welcome to the March issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Future Teaching Matters themes include: Tutoring and demonstrating – April 2017 PhD experience – May 2017 Assessment and Feedback – June 2017 If you’d like to contribute a blog post, video, or other media on any upcoming themes or any teaching-related subject, let us know. Mar 1, 2017

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You are employable – all you have to do is show it!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

on Campus internship as an ‘Employability Projects Intern’, she became increasingly interested in the concept of graduate attributes, student employability and higher education. Jan 20, 2017 After her Employ.ed

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Welcome to the January issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Future Teaching Matters themes will include: Teaching beyond the programme – February 2017 Peer teaching – March 2017 Tutoring and demonstrating – April 2017 If you have an idea or story related to these themes and you’d like to contribute a blog post, video, or other media let us know. Jan 4, 2017

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What does it mean to be a University of Edinburgh Graduate?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

With a background in statistical epidemiology, international development, careers advice and higher education projects, he is now responsible for supporting institutional strategy and initiatives relating to studentsemployability, development and graduate attributes, as well as fostering associated local-level activities and enhancements.

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A Transformative PhD Experience: Edinburgh Local GRADschool

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Vitae launched this intensive and highly rewarding professional development course in 1968, and GRADschools have taken place across the UK since then (2017). The Institute for Academic Development explains that GRADschools are “a unique experience [which] makes them difficult to describe” (2017). May 2, 2017 GRADschools.”

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of student employability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.

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Promoting equity and employability using live briefs

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However, I believe that the use of a live brief should be the unrivalled method to enhancing studentsemployability skills and prospects at university in comparison to these other approaches. Ranked based on perceived equity and employability status. Indeed, 55% of UK students now work an average of 13.5