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.

Student Employment 40

Student Employment Consulting Alumni Research 40

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., Nov 1, 2018

Research 52

Research Higher Education Student Engagement Alumni 52

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

At this early stage, the student receives feedback from their SLICC staff tutor, who offers them guidance on how they may gain greater insight during the learning experience and maximise the available opportunities.

Medical 52

Medical Student Employment Research Student Engagement 52

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.

Professional Development 52

Professional Development Career Services Management Alumni 52

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.

Industry 52

Industry Banking Management Research 52

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.

Computers and Informational Technology 52

Computers and Informational Technology Food Alumni Media 52

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

. * While waiting for their PVG approvals, students contacted their school mentors and arranged a first meeting to discuss their outline for a 20-hour lesson plan on a cultural topic designed to engage young learners and motivate them to see the benefits of learning languages. Half-time: How has it been going so far?

Community Outreach 52

Community Outreach Student Engagement Management Higher Education 52

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.

Management 52

Management Research IT Student Employment 52

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.

Research 52

Research Media International Studies Medical 52

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 4, 2019

Photo credit: thebostonpilot.com, CC0 In this post, Dr Sergei Plekhanov, a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Economics, highlights a sponsored dissertation scheme, which connects undergraduate economic students with organisations who need real-life problems researched… Do you remember you first big piece of individual work?

Research 52

Research Industry IT Student Employment 52

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.

Architecture 52

Architecture Management Research IT 52

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 (..)

Research 52

Research Healthcare Medical Student Employment 52

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

Management Finance Consulting Research 52

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.

Industry 52

Industry Finance Recruitment Management 52

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

Engineering Higher Education Education Career Services 52

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.

Admissions 52

Admissions Industry Research Education 52

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.

Medical 52

Medical Healthcare Curriculum Development Consulting 52

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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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