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Searching Uncertainty – determining the value of your university experience

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Jobs are scarce and a university degree will no longer guarantee immediate employment. After we leave Higher Education, we apparently find ourselves pitted against each other, competing for those scarce job opportunities. I graduated, as a student of Architecture, in 2016; a year replete with uncertainty.

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Barrie, 2004:262 However, what I have noticed through practice is that this undoubtedly critical element of higher education are often still attempted to be “taught”. This is supported by international studies of the need for higher education environment to do more applied “living curriculum” (Bath, et al., and Swann, R.

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The group project SLICC in medicine: “In this course, you can do anything you want to…”

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Final projects are presented at a showcase event, and also as an open website showcase on the MBChB website to provide a view from outside the programme into the medicine curriculum and our students. Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy. Please take a look.

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

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As we developed our thinking, I realised that what was actually inspiring me was the potential we have to impact the lives and careers of our students, by broadening the spectrum of positive destinations and outcomes available to them, one of the core aims of any education. Learning by doing is critical.