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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As Scotland marks 20 years of its enhancement-led approach to quality in the higher education sector, I reflect on my involvement, particularly around work supporting student development, employability, and personal and professional success.

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Collegiate commentary: Five take-aways from 'Embedding Enterprise in the Curriculum' series

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Helping students develop these capacities and skills whilst at university will certainly give them a head start in their career. He grew Dogfish to 40 people, exiting in 2018. In 2009, he left corporate life and set up his own tech start up – Dogfish Mobile – just after Apple first launched their iPhone.

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Learning from each other: Adventures in student engagement with learning and teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

I came into this programme as a mentor, along with Julie Dickson from the R(D)SVS, when the first cohort of UCVME students were nearing completion of their degrees (and their UCVME certificates) and were writing their AFHEA submissions. I am consistently inspired by what happens when we allow our students to take the reins in teaching.

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CoDI Show: Is astronaut food the future?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

is on 20th August 2018, 8.10pm, at the New Town Theatre (Fringe Venue 7). Many thanks to SSPS Student Development Office for financial and moral support, and to the Beltane Public Engagement, Fair Pley Productions and Stand Comedy Club teams for their amazing work over the years of developing the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas.

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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

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?’