Symplicity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The first half of my career was spent in Alumni Relations, and then I spent the last 7 in Career Services. In your view, what are some of the biggest changes student success roles in higher ed in the last five years? Before you joined Symplicity, what was your role in higher ed and what topics are you most passionate about?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

In this blog post, three SACHA alumni (Foster Osei, Mtevee Amugune, and Nisha Daniel), who participated in the SACHA programme as online distance learners, discuss the impact of experiential learning on the distance learner experience and share lessons that can be translated to other areas of the curriculum.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 11, 2019

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. This is where our mentoring program comes in. Overall, we’re building a community.

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CAPD

APRIL 29, 2024

How is the connection between current students and alumni? Do alumni easily offer internships or other opportunities to current students? There is a very strong alumni network at MIT, and there are a number of events and opportunities happening on campus throughout the year for students to connect with alumni.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 3, 2024

They are able to connect with other Change Agents and host organisations from all the programmes by participating in SACHA’s ‘Change Agents for Life’ alumni community. Alumni of the programme discuss the power of reflection as a tool for learning, and how reflection can be made more meaningful for students.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 17, 2018

Since then, in close cooperation with the Careers Service, we have been rolling out a School-wide project to situate careers and employability alongside our firm commitment to academic rigour.

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Development and Fund Raising Career Services Alumni Research 52

Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 2019

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.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 24, 2018

Vera Babida, now animating in Australia, recently talked to ECA Alumni about her experience of the Animation programme. In my experience, it has been more in touch with the professional world, as that is what you need to continue growing.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

What evidence do we have to show our students develop these graduate attributes? Perhaps the best is that our graduates are highly regarded and sought after by employers, and the continued successes of our alumni. Gavin co-leads the development of SLICCs institution-wide with Simon.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The foundation of its commitment is to provide a modern, robust catalog of student success advisers and alumni engagement opportunities. Some programs were cut entirely, such as student employment for those who don’t demonstrate financial need through the FAFSA.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 9, 2024

Sophie is a Chartered Waste Manager, with a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Law Valerie McIntosh Valerie currently leads on the development and delivery of the Business School’s Alumni Mentoring Programme.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This is how the Geoscience Outreach course is enriching the attributes with which students graduate from their university programmes to enter into the professional world – allowing them to explore a diverse range of future career paths. Joyful work at the allotment with Trinity Gardening Club.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D.,

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

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.

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EAB

APRIL 26, 2023

This allows students to choose the course format that makes the most sense for them. Use student employment as a retention strategy Many younger students already need to balance work and academics. More than 70% of part-time and nearly 40% of full-time students under the age of 24 work while enrolled in college.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 24, 2023

Accreditation by AMBA serves as an assurance to students, employers, and other stakeholders that a business school's MBA program meets the highest standards of excellence in business education. The role of AMBA accreditation in accrediting business schools is to provide a mark of quality and excellence for MBA programs worldwide.

Education 52

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 5, 2023

EQUIS Accreditation is designed to ensure that accredited institutions are delivering high-quality management education that meets the needs of students, employers, and society at large.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

With a background in statistical epidemiology, international development, careers advice and higher education projects, he is now responsible for supporting institutional strategy and initiatives relating to students’ employability, development and graduate attributes, as well as fostering associated local-level activities and enhancements.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

While we have published posts written by students before*, this is the first Teaching Matters issue that is authored solely by University of Edinburgh students (and student alumni). A flourishing field of student partnership work has recently emerged (e.g.,

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 9, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Digital5 Elements, CC0 In this post, Deborah Holt, Bicentennial Fellow in the Moray House School of Education, highlights how she works with her alumnae teachers to support and engage her students for professional life as teachers… I work in Initial Teacher Education and a substantial part of my work is to prepare students (..)

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Student success ensures that students develop the knowledge, skills, and competencies required for employment in their chosen fields. Well-prepared graduates enhance the institution's reputation and contribute to a strong alumni network. Societal Impact Student success in higher education has a broader societal impact.

Higher Education 40

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Student Experience Students commonly give feedback that they would like ‘real-life’ opportunities to use their degree during study. Our students feel under pressure to get involved in volunteering. Placements allow this but are quite challenging to resource.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

iStock [erhui1979] In a typical university course, students are set a list of texts by authors they do not know and will never meet. The texts are already published and there is no opportunity for students to give feedback.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

on Campus is a structured internship programme for undergraduate students in their 2nd, 3rd or penultimate year. Presentation practice! This summer I have had the pleasure and the privilege of taking part in the University’s Employ.ed on Campus 2018 programme.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Elizabeth Jamieson, CC0 In this post, Dr Daniel Kenealy, a Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Science, presents his six top tips for organising student work placements One of my most challenging but rewarding tasks has been the development of around eighty ‘Capstone’ placements for postgraduate (..)

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 20, 2022

Image credit: Zoe Patterson In this post, Zoe Patterson explains how the Design Agency project for Graphic Design students not only survived the pandemic, but was enhanced in its move to an online format. Zoe is Graphic Design Programme Director at Edinburgh College of Art.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In this post, Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service at The University of Edinburgh, summarises key themes from the latest Advance HE review of employability literature, such as work-integrated learning and employment inequalities. Last year, Advance HE conducted a thorough […].

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

Image credit: Pixabay, CC0 In this blog post, three SACHA alumni (Foster Osei, Mtevee Amugune, and Nisha Daniel), who participated in the SACHA programme as online distance learners, discuss the impact of experiential learning on the distance learner experience and share lessons that can be translated to other areas of the curriculum.

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Healthcare Career Services Medical Alumni 52

AIFS Abroad

MAY 17, 2021

Improve your students’ employability : Study abroad is an impressive part of any resume and their study abroad experience will give your students relevant life skills to speak to in job interviews. There is something to do every season of the year. .

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Over the last 20 years as the Programme Director of Graphic Design within Edinburgh College of Art’s (ECA) Design School I have been accustomed to teaching a wide range of students with diverse backgrounds from across the UK. It all started with me wondering where all the Middlesborough boys had gone.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

You might think that the teaching content in a professional vocational degree like medicine – defined by the governing body the General Medical Council ( GMC ) and detailing what a medical student should know as they exit their undergraduate programme and embark on their first day as a junior doctor – would be almost entirely prescriptive.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 8, 2018

Photographer credit: Mihaela Bodlovic In recent decades rapid technological and scientific innovation has fundamentally shifted the nature and structure of employment in developed countries, with a rise in the number of highly skilled professional, technical and managerial jobs.

Engineering 52

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

‘Over our dead bodies’ was the response I got when proposing to my final year undergrad Graphic Design students that we phase out the Design Agency scheme. They proceeded to explain how they would carry on with this decade-old project regardless, even if it was dropped from the curriculum, such is the value they place on it.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Credit: unsplash, @vidarnm, CC0 On a wonderfully sunny day in June 2016, I graduated with an honours degree in Geology and Physical Geography. Four years of labs, essays, field trips and, of course, rocks… it was schist hot! I really enjoyed the degree course and acquired excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Management 52

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Photo credit: unsplash, Piron Guillaume, CC0 In this post, Ashley Ferkol, a recent graduate of the MSc Performance Psychology programme at the University, describes the benefits of partnering with a professional body – the NHS – to collect research data for her dissertation project… Across any professional domain there are numerous (..)

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 9, 2019

T he mini-series hopes to capture a breadth of activities happening across campuses, to inspire staff and students to participate and expand on current offerings. Union Canal – Fountainbridge Moorings.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Photo credit: Annette Götzkes.

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