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. In turn, we expect students to explore, investigate, and research; trying things out and learning from experience.

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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. You can reach us at Gavin.McCabe@ed.ac.uk.

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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 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 4, 2017

For that one task, the student likely needed a range of attributes such as critical thinking, decision making, research skills, effective communication, a willingness to engage, an interest in learning, and a desire to do the task well or successfully. Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy.

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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. Hampshire College , Amherst, MA.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

Nina herself (along with Hazel Christie, from IAD) has researched the use of blogs in teaching and learning as part of a PTAS grant and has recorded a podcast episode for our mini-series (released today). The course is a great match for blogging and encourages reflection.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 27, 2018

Groups were allocated sectors of the labour market to research and at the end of the course their reports shared with the whole class so that students would have a bank of up to date knowledge about the labour market. So what was the result? References: Brophy, J. 2010): Motivating students to learn 3rd edition London: Routledge Gibbs, G.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The Historian’s Toolkit takes students through all steps of the historical research process. We are embedding the Careers Service and History Practitioners into our core courses, offering a completely novel approach to teaching transferable skills. At the same time, we have incorporated a new awareness of employability.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

In 2016/17, Focus On took the postgraduate research (PGR) student experience as its theme, an important aspect of which was postgraduates who teach. Omolabake Fakunle Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle is a MSc Educational Research graduate and current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Aug 10, 2017

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Maybe, in response to these questions, you thought back to a course that asked challenging questions and encouraged learners to research and find the answers independently. Tobias Thejll-Madsen Tobias Thejll-Madsen has been working with the University’s Employability Consultancy since graduating in the summer of 2018.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

These projects also develop research and critical skills obtained when writing essays. 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. May 22, 2018

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 16, 2023

Anyone can see these successes for themselves since the private Roman Catholic research institution shares what their alumni are actually saying and experiencing online. Some Villanova schools and colleges offer a required class on career and PD. About half of these students intern twice or more. Learn more at changinghighered.com.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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. Research Campus Work Options If you need to work while on campus, don’t wait until the first week of school to begin researching your options.

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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. 31:45 Changing Higher Ed is a production of the Change Leader, a consultancy committed to transforming higher ed institutions. Until next time.

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Parchment

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Is it research? Daphne Dor-Ner (09:54.542) And then it’s certainly about developing the skill set that they need to pursue the careers that they’re interested in. But it is regularly talking about career over the course of enrollment, not a resume review and career services at the very end. it teaching?

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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 Dr. Douglas N.

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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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Great College Advice

MAY 24, 2022

A good educational consultant is able to help you find these bargains. 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. Research Campus Work Options. There are many educational bargains out there.

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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. May 3, 2018

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The two review what we learned about the motivations and preferences of adult learners, and about how they research programs and colleges they might attend. My name is Beth Donaldson and I'm the Managing Director of our Adult Learner Consulting Services here at EAB. So give these folks a listen and enjoy. music] 0:00:48.5

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 10, 2025

Experiential Learning: Over 78% of students complete at least one internship, and 55% participate in faculty-mentored research. Career services and networking opportunities ensure that graduates remain engaged and professionally supported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2024

Specifically, being a Black male researcher-practitioner, I had “hope” in 2020 that we were beginning to peel back the layers of America that, for decades, we, as critical scholars and communities of color, have been sharing since slavery.

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