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Top ten most read Teaching Matters blog posts of 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

To wrap up the year, this editorial post celebrates the top ten viewed Teaching Matters blog posts in 2018. Conversations between staff and students about such topics need to be further encouraged across the University, and initiatives such as Cake and Coffee Conversations could be one way to take this forward in Schools.

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Festival of Creative Learning 2018: exploring innovative learning at the University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

With this blog post we are delighted to announce the call for applications to participate in the curated week of the Festival, taking place from 19th – 23rd February 2018. This is a unique opportunity for you to embrace your creative spirit and find space for your imagination to flourish.

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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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New evidence on the challenges and consequences of precarious work for university students

SRHE

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). Research on student-workers by employment scholars remains limited ( Rydzik and Bal, 2023 ).

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Why placements and fieldwork matter to future employers

Teaching Matters Student Employment

This is essential to help students make more informed choices about the kind of work they will really enjoy, and also because employers really value that experience in their recruitment processes. So what is the value of work experience from an employer’s perspective?

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Creating the Study Hub with students as consultant partners

Teaching Matters Academic Support

What we did in summer 2018 was employ a student intern to act as a consultant, give us a name for our new product, and design us a brand. Summer 2018 was successful. Grandidge, 2018) References Careers Service. 2018, November 5). Intern case studies: Design Intern 2018. Internal statistics (pers.

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Employ.ed: An Inter(n)esting Summer

Teaching Matters Student Employment

on Campus 2018 programme. on Campus is a structured internship programme for undergraduate students in their 2nd, 3rd or penultimate year. on Campus Internship Jordana Black Jordana Black is a Mathematics Student at the University, entering the fourth and final year of her degree. on Campus 2018 programme. Sep 6, 2018