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What even is a University anyway?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Starting her term in June 2020, she has worked alongside the University throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and has witnessed its impacts on the lives of our students, our staff and across the higher education sector. Ellen was a member of the Curriculum Transformation Board and Student Engagement Strategy Group.

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Spotlight on ELIR: Draft Reflective Analysis

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Photo credit: Pixabay, mohamed_hassan, CC0 This is the sixth post in the ‘Spotlight on ELIR’ series , which will chart the Enhancement-led Institutional Review (ELIR) that will be taking place in autumn 2020. The draft RA can be found on the Academic Services’ website The deadline for comments on the draft RA is Wednesday 8 April 2020.

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Collegiate Commentary: Five communities created by staff-student projects

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

As universities are under an increasing level of regulation and accountability in relation to student success and retention, we see commitments towards partnership working as a form of best practice (see: Office for Students Student Engagement Strategy ).

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A real leveller: Improving a year-long, team-based project for undergraduates and professional industry mentors during lockdown

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Parallels with industry were plentiful, which allowed us to continue to promote the Design Agency scheme at Open Days as producing graduates who are 100% employable. For example, students from all undergraduate levels, along with their voluntary industry mentors, have worked together remotely on TEAMS since March 2020.

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

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Ideas lead to enterprises One of the key findings of The Scottish Tech Ecosystem Review (STER) published by Professor Mark Logan in 2020 is that the start-up stage of the overall ecosystem needs to be populated by many vibrant early-stage companies that – critically – are given the right levels of high-quality support.

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Mini-series: Start as we mean to go on

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The Making Transitions Personal (MTP) Pre-arrival and Start-of-year Reviews is an initiative that aims to support this through a set of targeted reflective questions given to students before the start of the academic year. Apr 22, 2020

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Data mindfulness: Teaching undergraduates data management skills

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Feb 18, 2020 In addition to this, his main responsibilities include supporting users of the University’s open research data repository DataShare , and delivering classroom-based training in conjunction with the Digital Skills team and the Institute for Academic Development.