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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JANUARY 4, 2017

An experience like this is fundamental to helping students feel they belong to a university community that cares for them, their development and their success, both in the short and long term. Employability wordle So, what does it mean to be an Edinburgh Graduate?

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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 question is how we best engage with and use these opportunities, and keeping our energy up so we can try to enjoy the ride.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 22, 2020

Additionally, analysis reports are passed to each school ahead of Welcome Week, highlighting common themes within students’ responses for each school and can provide areas to address at the cohort level. or gavin.mccabe@ed.ac.uk Kirsty Stewart Kirsty Stewart is the Edinburgh Award Coordinator at the University of Edinburgh.

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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 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

JANUARY 9, 2017

Kirsty Stewart Kirsty Stewart is the Edinburgh Award Coordinator at the University of Edinburgh.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 13, 2017

Importantly, it might be that a student reading this piece might need to explore a bit further the array of EDOs at the university and beyond during their studies… Next steps: Find out how the Careers Service can help students find employability development opportunities What does it mean to be a University of Edinburgh Graduate?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 27, 2018

2010): Motivating students to learn 3rd edition London: Routledge Gibbs, G. 2006): How assessment frames student learning in C. She has worked in careers and employability for 15 years and prior to joining the University in 2009 she worked as a careers adviser in secondary schools in Cumbria. Bryan and K.

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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 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

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

History’s new curriculum ensures that high academic standards are not only maintained but also progressively improve over the course of a student’s degree. At the same time, we have incorporated a new awareness of employability.

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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. May 22, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Tobias Thejll-Madsen Tobias Thejll-Madsen has been working with the University’s Employability Consultancy since graduating in the summer of 2018. Amongst other projects, he has been a part of the creation of the Reflection Toolkit to support people with their reflective practice.

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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. All project documents can be found on the QAA Scotland 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. Oct 20, 2022

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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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