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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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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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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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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Symplicity

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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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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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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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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EAB

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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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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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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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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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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