Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

That is how I came across the MSc Carbon Management course at Edinburgh University. The Carbon Management syllabus is made up of three pillars: Science, Business and Economics. Without a doubt the interdisciplinary nature of the Carbon Management course opened the door to my current occupation. Oct 18, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 10, 2018

This whole assessment process is simple to manage and assess, with only about 35 reports covering the whole class of 200+ students. However, it is important to manage student expectations – all our medical students are so familiar with getting individual marks which they have full control over, and they are also competitive.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

UoE contact: John Bennett , Go Abroad Projects Manager. She specialises in new forms of mobility, including virtual exchange, and is passionate about enhancing the student experience through the provision of holistic support including academic skills, social integration, culture shock, mental and emotional wellbeing, and employability.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Since austerity, even ‘white, middle-class students of traditional age’ face a ‘double deficit’ of financial shortfall and increasing pressure to gain employability skills ( Hordósy, Clark and Vickers, 2018 : 361). Post-92 universities should not be unfairly blamed for failing students’ employability.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 9, 2018

Me and our compere, Susan Morrison, whom I somehow managed to dress as a satellite, during my first Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas show “Let Big Brother Watch! is on 20th August 2018, 8.10pm, at the New Town Theatre (Fringe Venue 7). Aug 9, 2018 From Space)” in 2016. Is Astronaut Food the Future?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 27, 2019

In this article, Lila Pitcher, Student Intern with Information Services, talks about her experience of co-creating the Information Services Group (ISG) Intern Blog during the summer of 2018. Another dimension of managing the blog came with promoting it. Editing my peers’ work made me look at my own differently.

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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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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 29, 2018

Helen also manages a team of careers consultants, and worked with Dr Lynsey Russell-Watts – careers consultant for ECA – on the career resilience project. Lynsey Russell-Watts Lynsey Russell-Watts is a Careers Consultant in the University of Edinburgh Careers Service, with a focus on Edinburgh College of Art students.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In particular, the Ethics event was well-attended and well-received where Dr Angus MacBeth (Lecturer in Clinical Psychology) provided students with a better understanding of ethical principles and application procedures. Finally, in a post-conference social, we celebrated our achievements in 2017-2018 as a community. Nov 20, 2018

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 17, 2018

HCA’s commitment to employability is supported by the School Management Committee and an ongoing research project into employability and the HCA degrees. Find out more on Esther’s staff profile May 17, 2018 You can read more about this PTAS- funded project by Esther Mijers and Craig Phillips here.

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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”.

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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 Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

UCVME students receiving their Certificates at the Vet School prize-giving Summer 2018. We introduced the UCVME in 2014 as we wanted to formally recognise the important role our students play in our teaching and learning processes. Sep 11, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

A similar project was carried out in the Summer of 2018, with this year’s students presenting findings at the largest international conference on astronomy and space science: the 2018 International Astronautical Congress in Bremen. References Barrie, S. and Swann, R. Adelaide, October 2017. Augrandjean, F., Doublet, S.,

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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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AIFS Abroad

MAY 17, 2021

The AIFS office and staff provide support services for students and faculty including orientation, program management, emergency and incident response 24/7 for the duration of the program. . Local Connections: There are so many ways that students can immerse themselves into the life and culture of Grenoble.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 9, 2019

T he mini-series hopes to capture a breadth of activities happening across campuses, to inspire staff and students to participate and expand on current offerings. Final student designs were exhibited as part of the international Planetary Health Conference held in McEwan Hall, gaining an audience of 400 delegates.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

We made the work manageable by sharing it out, with students volunteering to support the convenor in various ways. Jan 16, 2018 To add to the workload, we organised further events – seminars, lectures and, in one case, a book launch – around the visits. Another difficulty was finding the right papers to discuss.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2018

He is a Fulbright Award Recipient for 2018-19 and will spend some of his time working on exchange of best practice in postgraduate teaching at the Biofrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Aug 15, 2018 He has worked in industry and academia and works at the interface between chemistry and biomedicine.

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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”.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 16, 2019

The pathways model aims to promote experiential learning , encourage reflection and highlight the importance of interdisciplinary learning to students when engaging in sustainability issues. In September 2018, we launched two pathways, with one framed around the Sustainable Development Goals, and the other on Climate Change.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 22, 2024

Having graduated with a BSc in Geography from Durham University, Ross joined EY Management Consulting in London, eventually moving to Scotland in 1997 to work for Diageo, the global drinks giant. He grew Dogfish to 40 people, exiting in 2018.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

For a more in depth description of our activities, see: sewingfashion.wixsite.com and www.niamhmundy.com Niamh Mundy Niamh Mundy is currently a final year undergraduate student of Product Design. Nov 15, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While we recognise the benefits of this initiative for our own students, we are also aware that we need to offer them more support. Starting from September 2018, students can take this previously extra-curricular activity as a university course, gaining academic credit to formally recognise their learning.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

By combining these skills with scientific rigour and a passion for their discipline, students create unique outreach products and earn valuable experience in community engagement and project management. Joe has been working with Friend of the Meadows and Bruntsfield links and you can read more about his project on his blog.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

For a more in depth description of our activities, see: sewingfashion.wixsite.com and www.niamhmundy.com Niamh Mundy Niamh Mundy is currently a final year undergraduate student of Product Design. Nov 15, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

The academic environment provides a safe testing ground for Design Agency participants: risk-taking and experimentation within leadership and management roles, business structures, and presentation styles are all encouraged. Jun 7, 2018 You can read more about this project in this conference paper.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 3, 2018

This meant that development, regulation, production and quality aspects had to be addressed and students took on one of the roles in each group. In the 2018 series , we invited 6 organisations (3 small local companies and 3 large multinationals). She works mostly with Chemistry and Chemical Engineering students and graduates.

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