Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Image credit: Alex Green, pexels, CC0 In this post, Shelagh Green, Director of Careers Service at The University of Edinburgh, offers an overview of the Scottish Government’s 2022 review of careers services for young people.

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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 sector-wide Enhancement Themes have often been such waves – they have presented opportunities to harness and build momentum in directions we already wanted to travel as a university.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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. Here is the definition from the Reflection Toolkit : The conscious examination of past experiences, thoughts, and ways of doing things.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

Students develop their own set of personal and professional skills and attributes, and often use a blog to reflect on their progress. Simon did an excellent presentation as part of our blogging seminar series – and the recording is well worth a listen.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Large, diverse Schools like my own – Literatures, Languages and Cultures – also present their own set of unique challenges. Moreover, that information is not always presented in a particularly engaging way. Although there are many different answers, one thing is certain: there is no one size fits all approach.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

Without changing much, I could have helped them to articulate how their group presentations, research projects and seminar participation developed and demonstrated a range of valuable skills, or how their skills in close reading and written communication would be essential in decoding job advertisements and responding to them.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 16, 2024

Change Agents in a storytelling workshop with the Careers Service and Edinburgh Innovations. The students in my group were committed and motivated, developing innovative ideas and high-quality outputs. It was gratifying to see their contributions shape course design and curriculum development.”

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