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Integrating the world of work into university

Teaching Matters Student Employment

This autonomy develops a skillful approach which graduates can use when job hunting and throughout their working life. 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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The Reflection Toolkit: Supporting effective reflection

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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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Using Learn to Support Students for Success

Teaching Matters Academic Support

To support them through their degrees, that hub would need to contain key School information, study skills training, details of the Personal Tutor system, careers information, peer support and so on. Yes, this information is out there. Moreover, that information is not always presented in a particularly engaging way.

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

I was really excited to be involved because it’s a service that I think offers so many benefits, both to the staff and students who use the service and the institution in general. Karen Howie Karen Howie is the Technology Enhanced Learning Team manager in the Learning, Teaching & Web (LTW) Directorate in Information Services (IS).

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Welcome to the Nov-Dec Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Reflective Learning

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Its goal is to surface learning about oneself and the situation, and to bring meaning to it in order to inform the present and the future. It challenges the status quo of practice, thoughts, and assumptions and may therefore inform our decisions, actions, attitudes, beliefs, and understanding about ourselves.

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Career Design in a Box: Embedding Career Education in What We Already Do

Teaching Matters Academic Support

This project involved final-year graphic design students devising a design solution for the ‘problem’ of school career guidance. Whilst there was clearly a role for me in supporting the students through that process, where the project came into its own from a careers perspective was in the follow-up workshop I did with the students.