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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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Mini-series: Embedding sustainability in the curriculum

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Photo credit: pixabay, geralt, CC0 In this mini-series post , Kerry Cheek, gives insight into how her module in Case Studies in Sustainable Development helped improve student employability… ‘Sustainable development’ is a broad term, especially to an Environmental Sustainability Masters student.

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Reflection is central to effective experiential learning, whether inside or outside the curriculum, and developing our students as reflexive practitioners is a key objective within the University’s Curriculum Transformation Programme.

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Spotlight on ELIR: Draft of Chapter 5 (Reflective Analysis)

Teaching Matters Student Employment

She plays a key role in the Scottish HE quality landscape as a member of QAA Scotland’s Advisory Board, chair of the sparqs University Advisory Group, and member of the Quality Arrangements for Scottish Higher Education (QASHE) group Dec 11, 2019

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Top ten most read Teaching Matters blog posts of 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

A huge thank you to all our contributors and readers, and here’s to celebrating more wonderful, supportive and inspiring teaching and learning practices in 2019… 10. Look out for a Student Wellbeing Teaching Matters mini-series in July and August 2019. Jenny Scoles Dr Jenny Scoles is the editor of Teaching Matters.

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Spotlight on ELIR: Draft Reflective Analysis

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Drafts chapters of the RA, developed using information gathered from across the University and the Students’ Association, were made available to all staff and students in November and December 2019 with accompanying Teaching Matters blog posts.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Mar 5, 2019 She is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Sociology. Pauline Ferguson Pauline Ferguson is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Marketing, and Director of MSc Marketing.