Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 4, 2019

In 2018-19, Edinburgh had the largest Welcome Week Facebook group with over 5000 followers. Scholarships and Student Funding work with The Advice Place, Finance and ACE; the Careers Service works with Student Disability Service , and SRA. She manages the Student Support Services’ annual review process.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 23, 2019

Speednetworking event in 50 George Square, October 2018, with pupils from St. As part of the round of interviews, pupils also quiz a Careers Service Advisor to find out about career options open to linguists. David’s, Dalkeith, and Castlebrae, Edinburgh. The morning finishes with guided campus tour by the students.

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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. After the Theme this helped give birth to two toolkits on topics essential to student development, employability, and success.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 21, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash,Alejandro Escamilla, CC0 In this post, Eilidh Steele, Internships Manager at the Careers Service, highlights the Insights Programme, which exemplifies the fourth and final strand of the Widening Participation Strategy: ‘Support to Progress”. She is responsible for the Insights Programme and the Employ.ed

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image credit: The Reflection Toolkit , The University of Edinburgh In this post, Gavin McCabe, Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service, spotlights the Reflection Toolkit – an invaluable resource for reflective practice in the HE sector and beyond. You can reach us at Gavin.McCabe@ed.ac.uk.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This was a big step in students taking control of their own learning and project managing with many different stakeholders. Creative problem solving, risk taking, lateral thinking, communication, project management, amongst the many core design skills this student employed in order to fulfil this unique ‘task’. Sep 13, 2018

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

For the majority of students the destination is a job where soft skills and project management are probably valued higher than memorisation and quick essay writing skills (although such skills are essential in academia, too). May 22, 2018

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 27, 2018

Through providing more formative feedback I hoped to demonstrate the elements of a good action plan and how to make a good action plan better, thus equipping students with skills for lifelong career management and increasing their chances of achieving their goals.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Although a for-profit institution, Post University employs a unique and effective two-fold approach to its career readiness model to ensure graduates are career-ready with lifelong learning skills that “not-for-profit” universities can emulate on their campuses.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Melanie Booth (13:29.902) you Matthew Sterenberg (13:33.023) look different or maybe I want to manage people, right? Quality student support services, access to career services, the experience of being on site again, has given many of them confidence to use prior learning assessment. Maybe I want to move up.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 3, 2018

To test this out, Philip Bailey (Head of Teaching, School of Chemistry) and Deborah Fowlis (Careers Consultant, Careers Service) co-ordinated interactive workshops run by experts from the chemical industry, enabling students to experience real workplace scenarios. May 3, 2018

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