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?’ Jan 17, 2019

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The Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By allowing multiple submissions and encouraging the use of feedback to refine and deepen content understanding with each attempt, students develop a drive for robust mastery of course goals that supplants the typical pursuit of a particular course grade (usually an A). 27 October, 2019). Start trusting students.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A startling three-quarters of high school grads say they do not feel prepared to make these important choices about their futures, according to a survey of 500 students from the classes of 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 conducted by YouScience, an integrated college and career readiness platform.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 2019

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. Rosalyn Claase Ros is Head of Student Experience, having joined the Business School in November 2011 as the Careers Manager.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Coding Club initiative is trying to instill confidence in student learners at the University of Edinburgh so that they can become the teachers of tomorrow. Our mission is to create a fun and supportive environment where we develop programming and statistics skills together. Sep 26, 2019

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

Manage relationships during the placement A typical placement might involve four people: the student, an academic supervisor at the University, a supervisor at the host organisation, and somebody at the University who handles any non-academic issues that arise on the placement. Jul 30, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

The course staff feel that a more private blog is a good way for students to express ideas and reflect on them (in a safe space), and really helps the course staff and the student to connect. Dr Simon Riley is using it in part of the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) project. Apr 17, 2019

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

AUGUST 26, 2020

The Summer Cycles were for the cohort of 31 undergraduates students who began their studies here in September 2019. Pete Kingsley Pete Kingsley is the Student Development Coordinator on the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program. Photo credit: Eoin Carey.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sarah has previously worked in student support leadership roles completing a Masters in Education (Leadership and Management). She has a keen interest in quality assurance, widening participation, academic and pastoral care of students, development of taught provision, and leadership of change in a higher education context.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Zohra O’Doherty Prior to graduating from The University of Edinburgh as a mature student in 2023 after completing an MA (Hons) in Social Policy and Sociology, Zohra O’Doherty returned to higher education via the University’s Access Programme in 2019.

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Creatrix Campus

AUGUST 7, 2023

As more students disengage from their educational path, higher educational institutions are increasingly turning to Behavior Management Strategies as a powerful solution. As per UNESCO, over 260 million children were out of school in 2019, underscoring a critical global dropout crisis.

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Clark Nesxen

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

According to a 2019 study by the U.S. Department of Education, students who focused on career and technical education (CTE) during high school had higher annual median earnings eight years after graduation than students who did not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Before education was integrated in the 1950s and 1960s, HBCUs educated most Black college students. HBCUs played a vital role in developing Black social and political consciousness among students. In 2018, Jayla Allen, a third-generation Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) student, was the lead plaintiff in Allen v.

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