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. The experience at Edinburgh can be truly transformational for our students.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 17, 2017

iStock [BrianAJackson] Several previous posts on Teaching Matters have focused on graduate attributes – the skills, abilities, attitudes and approaches that students develop “through meaningful experiences and the processes of learning and reflection” (from Definition: what are Graduate Attributes? ).

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

However, what do they do when they look to develop students’ ‘mindsets’? 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. communication, teamworking).

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 10, 2022

Reaching such an understanding involves identifying the factors which enable, but also constrain, students’ development of these attributes.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 9, 2024

Students at SACHA Think Tank ideas launch. Photo credit: Daniel Hooper-Jones and Isaure Echivard, SACHA In this blog post, SACHA group coaches Lesley Kelly, Sophie Rippinger, Valerie McIntosh and Amer Khushman share top tips for group mentoring. This post belongs to June-July Hot Topic series: Students as Change Agents (SACHA).

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Vet students work with a model of a dog’s head [Paul Dodds]. It was fantastic that they were included in the event and celebrated just as much as staff who teach; this sort of thing I feel makes us feel more like partners in learning and teaching rather than separate entities of teachers and students.

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