Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image credit: Pixabay, pexels, CC0 In this post, Susan Bird, the Link Careers Consultant for the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Edinburgh, explores a recent opportunity to strengthen ties between the Careers Service and evolving student support systems. Making a meal of it!

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 29, 2018

Helen Stringer Helen Stringer is Assistant Director of the Careers Service, and has a remit for developing academic partnerships. Helen also manages a team of careers consultants, and worked with Dr Lynsey Russell-Watts – careers consultant for ECA – on the career resilience project.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The careers service is directly involved in this course delivery with our school’s Careers Consultant providing valuable input during the initial stages. The careers service is directly involved in this course delivery with our school’s Careers Consultant providing valuable input during the initial stages.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Compounded by the wider pressures facing Gen Z, these curricula developments have given urgency to the need for update links between ECA/Music and the University Careers Service , and also to generate new networks and resources that can better serve both students and academic staff.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. The University avoided the trap of seeing employability as solely a Careers Service responsibility, and instead used this funding to support an institution-wide and collaborative approach.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 22, 2020

For example, each year, one school addresses the large portion of their students concerned about career planning by organising the Careers Consultant for that school and running a workshop for students on that topic. We know from students that it is critical for their engagement with the review to be at least acknowledged.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Careers consultants dip into their practitioners’ toolbox to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and prompt reflections on what is – and what could be. It recognises that career planning is often influenced by unplanned events, but encourages qualities such as curiosity, flexibility, persistence, and optimism.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

In this post, Lynsey Russell-Watts, Careers Consultant for ECA, discusses her involvement in the recent Graphic Design in a Box project. This aimed to improve design-related careers resources in schools, but the final-year students involved also gained a wide range of career benefits from their participation.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Image credit: The Reflection Toolkit , The University of Edinburgh In this post, Gavin McCabe, Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service, spotlights the Reflection Toolkit – an invaluable resource for reflective practice in the HE sector and beyond. That’s where the Reflection Toolkit comes in.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 13, 2017

Aside from the activities outlined above, I attended a University Careers Fair where I made contact with a local charity. By Gavin McCabe, University’s Employability Consultancy Omolabake Fakunle Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle is a MSc Educational Research graduate and current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Jan 13, 2017

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 23, 2019

As part of the round of interviews, pupils also quiz a Careers Service Advisor to find out about career options open to linguists. Apart from this credit-bearing “Languages Beyond University” course, we have developed a number of mostly student-led outreach initiatives for local schools.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 3, 2023

Employability is not just the job of a Careers Service. 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. Alongside internship modules, we deliver a range of Career Management modules.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 9, 2017

The Edinburgh Award is an initiative that recognises students’ involvement with co- and extra-curricular activities while at University. It also seeks to enhance the learning and development opportunities these activities provide and encourage students to see the relevance of these activities in preparing them for their future.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Reflecting on reflection, Simon and Gavin spotlight the exciting posts forthcoming in this series: Reflective Learning 2022. Reflection is critical for our development as individual practitioners in higher education, as collective departments, and as a whole institution. The same is true for our students.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

Working with colleagues from across the Business School and the Careers Service, we have been able to shape a version of the Edinburgh Award in Professional Development targeted at our second year students. Answer: Get our students involved in its design and delivery.

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

JANUARY 15, 2020

Two higher education administrators and an academic consulting firm shared their visions on tailoring their programs to meet student and operational needs: Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts. Broaden advising, career services & professional development. Enhance the undergraduate experience.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

The second half of the presentation is also really interesting: Tobias Thejl- Madsen talks about the new Reflective Toolkit developed by the Employability Consultancy (in the Careers Service), which uses blogging as an example of a tool for reflection. Look out for it! Apr 17, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

We are embedding the Careers Service and History Practitioners into our core courses, offering a completely novel approach to teaching transferable skills. In summer 2016, the History Subject Area embarked on the largest overhaul of its curriculum in a generation. The course is fully integrated into the first-year curriculum.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Why was that? What was it about the teaching activities or the way the content was presented that engaged the learners? What was it about the teaching activities or the way the content was presented that engaged the learners? Why did this work better than alternatives? Maybe there were group discussions with a chance to refine ideas with peers.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 20, 2016

Find out more about ACJ at the University of Edinburgh: Employability Consultancy slides on ACJ and the Edinburgh Award Using ACJ in the School of Physics and Astronomy Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy. Psychological Review 34.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 27, 2018

CC0 Teaching the Career Development Planning course, a compulsory non-credit bearing course for second year undergraduates in the Business School, has its challenges. The student cohort is large and diverse with students at all stages of career planning. References: Brophy, J. 2006): How assessment frames student learning in C.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Although a for-profit institution, Post University employs a unique and effective two-fold approach to its career readiness model to ensure graduates are career-ready with lifelong learning skills that “not-for-profit” universities can emulate on their campuses. Learn more at changinghighered.com. Camille, welcome to the show.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 16, 2023

The career and PD team also presents career outcomes and experiences to inform other departments of its findings and to get feedback from them. In addition, the career and PD team asks what other departments are hearing from students and how the career and PD team can help if they have questions.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

Congruent with her academic and research interests, currently, Labake works as an assistant tutor at the School of Education and PhD Intern at the Careers Services. iStock [shuoshu] Many of us will have been taught by, or worked as a postgraduate tutor. All project documents can be found on the QAA Scotland website. Aug 10, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

While at University of Edinburgh, Tobias has been involved with Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses voicing a student’s perspective, as well as being training manager at the student-led consultancy FreshSight Ltd. In fact, he was gathering signatures to ensure some practical experience. So far it had been reports and hand-ins.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, career services programming is often developed with the purpose of improving student skill in each of the career competencies as described by NACE. However, many career services departments only collect data on the number of students receiving internships and landing jobs in their first year post graduation.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Keep this folder somewhere safe; you’ll need to refer to it throughout your college career when it comes time to refile. Your counselor is a resource that you can consult for all kinds of things, and they may know of scholarships that you can apply for that haven’t crossed your radar. Verify Deadlines Check your deadlines.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 27, 2023

About the Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton, the host of Changing Higher Ed ®, is a consultant to higher ed institutions in governance, accreditation, strategy and change, and mergers. These communications are preferred daily but must be done weekly at the very least. This involves speaking to as many employees as possible in an in-person setting.

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Parchment

OCTOBER 22, 2024

But one last piece that I’ll highlight, and I can talk a little bit about how it all fits together, is we help institutions measure the career outcomes of their learners. So we really help them understand what happens to learners not just right after graduation, but as they progress into their careers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

Hope Krutz “A key part to this report is not just the impact on the next one or two classes,” said Hope Krutz, president of Enroll360, an EAB initiative that delivers consulting and marketing services to institutions across the country. “But I think it is worrisome, and it's not just the academic side of it,” said Harris.

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Great College Advice

MAY 24, 2022

Keep this folder somewhere safe; you’ll need to refer to it throughout your college career when it comes time to refile. A good educational consultant is able to help you find these bargains. The financial aid timeline is critical if you want to maximize the amount of financial aid for which you are eligible. Verify Deadlines.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 3, 2018

CC0 [pixabay] Deborah Fowlis, Careers Consultant, shares with Teaching Matters how interactive workshops with chemical industry experts has helped Chemistry students prepare for the workplace… Many Chemistry students are keen to use their degree knowledge directly in a graduate job. 81.4.201-204.

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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. Portugal, South Africa, and Ghana.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

My name is Beth Donaldson and I'm the Managing Director of our Adult Learner Consulting Services here at EAB. As Beth said, my name is Todd Heilman and I have the pleasure of serving as Senior Consultant and Principal in EAB's Adult Learner Division. So give these folks a listen and enjoy. music] 0:00:48.5 Hello everyone.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 10, 2025

Also, Gettysburg Colleges investment in revitalizing downtown Gettysburg through projects like the Majestic Theater restoration and its support of local internships/service programs help strengthen the social and economic fabric of the area. Gettysburgs historical significance (from its Civil War connections to President Dwight D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2024

As career services professionals who work or have worked in Texas, this has impacted us deeply that such a heavily populated minoritized state would pass legislation that could hurt the very citizens the state strives to elevate within their workforce agendas. It keeps you from doing your work.

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