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In this first post, Colm Harmon, Vice-Principal Students, introduces the series, contextualising its importance in the landscape of the current Curriculum Transformation Programme. Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the CareersService, then provides some insights into the content of the series, before Colm offers a concluding statement.
Image credit: Alex Green, pexels, CC0 In this post, Shelagh Green, Director of CareersService at The University of Edinburgh, offers an overview of the Scottish Government’s 2022 review of careersservices for young people. When government’s policy eye turns in your direction, it can be a mixed blessing.
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This autonomy develops a skillful approach which graduates can use when job hunting and throughout their working life. The careersservice is directly involved in this course delivery with our school’s Careers Consultant providing valuable input during the initial stages.
Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the CareersService and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. The University avoided the trap of seeing employability as solely a CareersService responsibility, and instead used this funding to support an institution-wide and collaborative approach.
Image credit: The Reflection Toolkit , The University of Edinburgh In this post, Gavin McCabe, Careers and Employability Manager from the CareersService, spotlights the Reflection Toolkit – an invaluable resource for reflective practice in the HE sector and beyond. That’s where the Reflection Toolkit comes in.
Reflection is critical for our development as individual practitioners in higher education, as collective departments, and as a whole institution. And as for any skill that impacts students’ development and success, it is important that we purposefully and meaningfully recognise, support, and nurture it, within and beyond our curricula.
Planned Happenstance Theory of Career (Krumboltz & Levin, 2004) is a popular choice and seems particularly prescient just now, echoing changes that are being forecast for the future of work. The programme will be designed to be flexible, offered alongside or within the curriculum, across or within disciplines. link] Valentine, R.,
Change Agents in a storytelling workshop with the CareersService and Edinburgh Innovations. Faculty are busy with teaching and research, making it hard to find time for collaborative curriculum design. It aligns with my work at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD).
Whether it’s refining technical expertise, developing leadership skills, or fostering entrepreneurial spirit, these projects play a crucial role in preparing students for their future careers.
Of course I believed students were developing ‘transferable skills’, but I was largely concerned with the nitty-gritty of the immediate skills they had to develop to perform well in their assessments! On the ‘other side’, as a careers consultant, I see things rather differently. We can’t afford to ignore this concern.
Students develop their own set of personal and professional skills and attributes, and often use a blog to reflect on their progress. Karen Howie Karen Howie is the Technology Enhanced Learning Team manager in the Learning, Teaching & Web (LTW) Directorate in Information Services (IS). Look out for it! Apr 17, 2019
The Learn site currently contains seven folders: solutions to common problems; academic skills; getting the most of your assessment and feedback; tools to support learning and research; student support and the PT system; a careers roadmap; and information on peer support. And you would be right, but you probably see the problem already.
In summer 2016, the History Subject Area embarked on the largest overhaul of its curriculum in a generation. The Historian’s Toolkit is an entirely new training course for first-year History students, and the foundation of the new curriculum. The course is fully integrated into the first-year curriculum.
Support services in the University also take part in this event. In previous years the Chaplaincy, counselling service, careersservice, and security services have taken part. The student welfare week is held annually in the third week of February.
I wanted an opportunity to meet other students who are not on the same program as myself, meet other faculties and staff of the university, engage in a life-changing activity where I could contribute to the university and its development. I would like to see this initiative applied within the curriculum.
CC0 Teaching the CareerDevelopment 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.
Reflection can therefore have an important role in the process of building successful courses and programmes, and moreover, it can be a useful explicit element within the curriculum. Reflection within the curriculum Reflection can be effectively facilitated in most contexts and is an important skill. Why was that?
When applying for a job, I won’t talk about an essay, or multiple choice tests where I got 90+%; I will talk about the time I developed and taught workshops on emotional resilience to at-risk youth. Let’s continue giving students more chances to develop the skills and mindsets they really need to succeed in life after university.
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