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Insights Programme: Connecting with Alumni to support Widening Participation students’ career trajectories

Teaching Matters Student Employment

To support the Widening Participation strategy, and working in partnership with Development and Alumni, the Widening Participation Team and Edinburgh Global, the Careers Service piloted the Insights programme last summer to provide funded opportunities to help 50 Widening Participation students achieve this.

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Insights Programme: Connecting with Alumni to support Widening Participation students' career trajectories

Teaching Matters Student Employment

To support the Widening Participation strategy, and working in partnership with Development and Alumni, the Widening Participation Team and Edinburgh Global, the Careers Service piloted the Insights programme last summer to provide funded opportunities to help 50 Widening Participation students achieve this.

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Welcome to June-July Hot Topic theme: Students as Change Agents (SACHA)

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Students as Change Agents (SACHA) is a student-led design thinking programme that partners diverse student groups with host organisations to tackle challenges aligned to the University’s research themes and that address the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS).

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Mini-series: Performance Psychology Mentoring: Bridging the gap from university to professional world

Teaching Matters Academic Support

We have a pool of trained alumni who are available both in Edinburgh and abroad, who can help to support students. We invite former alumni too, bringing together various generations of students, to share questions and experiences. Dec 11, 2019 This is where our mentoring program comes in.

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

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Alongside this, Edinburgh Award participants elect which activities and skills sessions to attend as part of a broader suite of professional development activities offered through a partnership between the Business School, the Careers Service, and some recent alumni. Jan 17, 2019

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Through the peer networks that the structures of the award facilitate, we find that it helps strengthen the bonds and relationships within and across the Programmes and the school, as well as enhancing students’ confidence and belief in their skills. Mar 5, 2019

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Bridging the seminar room and the world of public policy: Six practical tips for organising work placements

Teaching Matters Student Employment

He was director of the Master of Public Policy programme between 2013 and 2016, and has helped to develop work shadowing and work-based placements in the School of Social and Political Science, where he was School Quality Assurance Director between 2017 and 2019. Jul 30, 2019