Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 1, 2017

Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. We also run an events listing page. The focus for March is Peer Learning. Remember, you can also submit details about your event and we can advertise it on Teaching Matters.

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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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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The University Chancellor, The HRH Princess Royal, talks to students at the workshop about blogging for Teaching Matters. This month, I am delighted to announce Teaching Matters’ focused intention to authentically engage students into conversations about learning and teaching across the University. Students at the workshop.

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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 Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

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 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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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

Students engaging with their anticipated learning before the experience has begun is a key step in the SLICC framework, enabling them to better recognise the extent of their learning throughout. The SLICCs initiative provides a flexible, reflective, framework which represents an opportunity to enable interdisciplinary learning and teaching.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Students were also introduced to reflective learning models, as tools for their regular reflective blogs. These blogs form part of their assessed portfolio where they evidence what they have learned and demonstrate how they have met the self-designed learning outcomes for the course using the SLICC framework.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 3, 2023

Self-awareness: The development of students’ self-awareness is at the very foundation of many of the initiatives outlined in this blog series. Planning and managing one’s career is a skill in itself, and Sharon’s blog post illustrates how student’s need support and reassurance as they develop their self-awareness.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 2, 2024

Students at SACHA Think Tank ideas launch. Photo credit: Daniel Hooper-Jones and Isaure Echivard, SACHA In this blog, SACHA staff members, Aidan Tracey and Emma Taylor discuss three common group dynamics and share key takeaways on effective teamwork. This post belongs to June-July Hot Topic series: Students as Change Agents (SACHA).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2017

With this blog post we are delighted to announce the call for applications to participate in the curated week of the Festival, taking place from 19th – 23rd February 2018. For further inspiration, you can read about the events acknowledged at the Festival Awards in this earlier blog post.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

All this is set within the context of students exploring a topic or activity of their own choosing, interest and passion. Seconded to the Institute for Academic Development he is developing his interests in reflection, experiential learning, and student agency, to develop SLICCs institution-wide.

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AIFS Abroad

MAY 17, 2021

This week on the blog we are highlighting the beautiful city of Grenoble, France! Grenoble is for students: With over 65,000 university students and several prestigious universities, Grenoble is an ideal place to study abroad. The post Why Grenoble as a Customized Faculty-Led Location appeared first on AIFS Study Abroad Blog.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 9, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the QAA approach to higher education quality assurance, discussing its history, objectives, principles, and benefits. Collaboration : The QAA works collaboratively with higher education institutions, students, employers, and other stakeholders to promote and enhance the quality of higher education.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

Students wrote blog posts summarising the papers for a wider audience, some of which were then published on the Just World Institute website (see here , here and here ). So, the course took something of the form of a research seminar, although as we note below, it was not exactly the same.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

You can read previous blog posts about interning and Employ.ed on Campus Internship Jordana Black Jordana Black is a Mathematics Student at the University, entering the fourth and final year of her degree. It’s definitely been one of the most inter(n)esting summers of my life.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

– Charissa , student auditor.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

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. 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.

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EAB

APRIL 26, 2023

Blogs High school graduates are going to work instead of college. Prepare for interruptions When I ask cabinet leaders why students leave college, I’m frequently told, “Life got in the way.” This allows students to choose the course format that makes the most sense for them. Can we prove they don’t have to choose?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 15, 2018

Image credit: EY This blog post is written by a Laura Sleigh, a 2008 graduate from the university. Laura works as a Student Attraction Advisor for EY, one of the global leaders in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, and the University of Edinburgh Business School.

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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.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JUNE 19, 2018

In short, a quecture is a variant of the flipped classroom model were time is built in during the lecture for students to formulate and discuss their own questions, which are then addressed via a personal response system.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This series of blog posts will stimulate that thinking, and I hope to see it spill over into our ongoing conversation about the future of learning and teaching. A striking aspect of this series will be the explicit recognition of shared agendas and mutual benefit.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This will ensure that students will find it easier to tailor and complete their degree as a foundation for future learning, competencies and ethical global citizenship amongst others. I do not aim to repeat those well-made points, but rather to expand on the enterprise context within Scotland and beyond.

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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 Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

You can read about how we established learning needs among both the PGR and supervisor communities, and why and how we co-created a draft of a new Development Needs Analysis in Maj’s blog, out next week.

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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 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

AUGUST 17, 2017

There are also implications for curricular design, specifically promoting engaging and authentic learning activities that continue to allow students to make the links between their academic and professional lives. Read Natalie Gilfedder’s Teaching Matters post ‘ You are employable – all you have to do is show it!

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 18, 2020

Drafts chapters of the RA, developed using information gathered from across the University and the Students’ Association, were made available to all staff and students in November and December 2019 with accompanying Teaching Matters blog posts. Comments received on the draft chapters were used to develop a first draft of the RA.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 2, 2017

Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. We also run an events listing page. The focus for May is the PhD experience. This year, the British PhD celebrates its 100 th birthday. We hope that you enjoy this edition of Teaching Matters and encourage you to get involved.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

This has been very successful so far, with exciting and conceptually challenging material being brought into the course, and led to further collaborative work by the very same students in partnerships with external organisations both within as well as out with the course.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 26, 2023

A note from Sinéad Docherty After asking colleagues for their contributions to this blog series , we heard from Amanda Meyer about this project undertaken by MSc Global Challenges alumni.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 11, 2023

The Process and Benefits of Engineers Australia Accreditation for Engineering Programs editor Tue, 04/11/2023 - 05:16 A quality education that equips Australian students with the challenges of the profession is crucial because engineering is a highly technical and complex field.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

To find out more about course alumni check out the GeoScience Outreach website and read Isla Simmons’ Teaching Matters blog post: ‘ Teaching volcanoes: the Geoscience Outreach and Engagement course ’’. Joe has been working with Friend of the Meadows and Bruntsfield links and you can read more about his project on his blog.

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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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