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Welcome to the January issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 4, 2017

Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. The focus for January is employability, introduced by the Director of the University’s Careers Service, Shelagh Green. We also run an events listing page.

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Integrating the world of work into university

Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Seeing the imperfections, assumptions and short-cuts needed to implement research into practice is revelatory to students. Students keep a blog (≥10 weeks) and write a reflective report of their experiences. The blogs give enlightening insights into the attachments as they unfold and develop.

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Welcome to the May issue of Teaching Matters: Employability and Graduate Attributes

Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 1, 2018

In this month’s issue, Teaching Matters is delighted to be working in close partnership with the Careers Service to showcase innovative and interesting teaching practices that focus on Employability and Graduate Attributes.

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Creating the Study Hub with students as consultant partners

Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In this post, Dr Kay Williams, Study Development Advisor at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD), explains the value of working with students as consultants to create the new Study Hub brand, and the Study Hub blog , which offer learning resources for students… How do you solve a problem with learning materials?

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Developing students’ career resilience – a university wide approach?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 29, 2018

Although it would be unwise to draw firm conclusions from such a small sample size, the ECA students exhibited high levels of resilience and maturity, with many attributing this to early – and recurrent – exposure to failure, risk and critique. Educational Studies. 32(3): 251–264. May 29, 2018

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Collegiate Commentary: Five lessons from the 2022 Careers and Employability Series

Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 3, 2023

Employability is not just the job of a Careers Service. Self-awareness: The development of students’ self-awareness is at the very foundation of many of the initiatives outlined in this blog series. Alongside internship modules, we deliver a range of Career Management modules. 100% can recommend.”

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Welcome to the Sept-Oct Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Careers and Employability

Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In this first post, Colm Harmon, Vice-Principal Students, introduces the series, contextualising its importance in the landscape of the current Curriculum Transformation Programme. Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service, then provides some insights into the content of the series, before Colm offers a concluding statement.

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Welcome to June-July Hot Topic theme: Students as Change Agents (SACHA)

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 3, 2024

Students as change agents (SACHA) Welcome to the Hot Topic series for June and July 2024: Students as Change Agents (SACHA). Ruth is Assistant Director, Careers Service, and SACHA Programme Director, and Emma is SACHA Programme Manager. This series is introduced in the this post by Emma Taylor and Ruth Donnelly.

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From PgCAP to PTAS: Co-creating a new Development Needs Analysis for PGRs

Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

To improve PGRs’ satisfaction, enhance the student experience, and ensure the quality of doctoral education in line with sector developments, I wanted to co-create a new Development Needs Analysis for the University.

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Developing employability during a one-year Masters-level programme

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 13, 2017

But, at a personal level, how does an international student perceive they develop their employability during a one-year Masters-level study in a UK university? However, this blog post is a reflexive piece about developing my employability during my Masters programme. This is the title of my PhD research. Jan 13, 2017

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[Guest Post] How Faculty Collaboration in Career Readiness Is Pivotal to Student and Institutional Success

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Guest blog post by Ray Angle, Assistant Vice President for Career & Professional Development at Gonzaga University and Matt Small, President and CEO of Symplicity.

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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

The BizPALS scheme has been recognised in the university for its successes with student study and pastoral support, so who better to work with than our well-established PALS network, notably our Student Senior Leader, Kate Schafferius , and Dr Lisa Nowak , the Students’ Association Peer Learning Coordinator.

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Career Design in a Box: Embedding Career Education in What We Already Do

Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

Career education should add value to the higher education experience, not devalue it, since it is about making explicit higher education’s wide range of benefits, in ways which enhance our students’ career readiness and employability.

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Risk it, you’re worth it!: A cabaret of careers at Employ.ed

Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

With the assistance of the Edinburgh Award , I started to think about how transferable some of these skills might be for future job applications or career paths. Image credit: Eddie Middleton It would be impossible to sum up a 12-week learning experience in the confines of a 600-word blog entry.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Projects addressed topics such as annual giving, student retention, professional and continuing education, academic program planning, and more. The blog posts below are written by the participants to showcase their project and early outcomes. Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D.,

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Experiential learning and distance learning students

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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Reflection in learning design: Part of the process and potentially an outcome

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

While there is the classic example of a reflective blog or reflective essay as an assessment, many other approaches exist. Reflection can also be adapted into other types of courses in the shape of teaching strategies or assessments, and improving as a reflector can even be a learning outcome.

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Training and support for postgraduate students who teach (PGWT)

Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

Next Steps: Read the project documents in full and find out more about the Focus On theme via the QAA Scotland website Read Tina Harrison’s Teaching Matters blog post on ELIR at Edinburgh. If you’re interested in finding out more about the project you can access all project publications at the QAA Scotland Focus On website. Aug 10, 2017

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Employability: What does the research tell us?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Image credit: Andrea Piacquadio, pexels, CC0 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.

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From PgCAP to PTAS: Co-creating a new Development Needs Analysis for PGRs

Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

To improve PGRs’ satisfaction, enhance the student experience, and ensure the quality of doctoral education in line with sector developments, I wanted to co-create a new Development Needs Analysis for the University.

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Welcome to the January issue of Teaching Matters!

Integrating the world of work into university

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Welcome to the May issue of Teaching Matters: Employability and Graduate Attributes

Creating the Study Hub with students as consultant partners

Developing students’ career resilience – a university wide approach?

Collegiate Commentary: Five lessons from the 2022 Careers and Employability Series

Welcome to the Sept-Oct Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Careers and Employability

Welcome to June-July Hot Topic theme: Students as Change Agents (SACHA)

From PgCAP to PTAS: Co-creating a new Development Needs Analysis for PGRs

Developing employability during a one-year Masters-level programme

[Guest Post] How Faculty Collaboration in Career Readiness Is Pivotal to Student and Institutional Success

Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Career Design in a Box: Embedding Career Education in What We Already Do

Risk it, you’re worth it!: A cabaret of careers at Employ.ed

Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

Experiential learning and distance learning students

Reflection in learning design: Part of the process and potentially an outcome

Training and support for postgraduate students who teach (PGWT)

Employability: What does the research tell us?

From PgCAP to PTAS: Co-creating a new Development Needs Analysis for PGRs

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