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‘So your degree; what are you going to do with that? Do you want to become a teacher?’: Employability in HCA

Teaching Matters Student Employment

CC0 [Pixabay] For a number of years now, the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) has been working closely with the Careers Service to help address the question every arts and humanities students faces at some point in their career: ‘So your degree; what are you going to do with that?

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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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Collegiate Commentary: Five lessons from the 2022 Careers and Employability Series

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Employability is not just the job of a Careers Service. Self-awareness: The development of students’ self-awareness is at the very foundation of many of the initiatives outlined in this blog series. The development of transferable skills and recognition of graduate attributes has long been a stalwart of careers services.

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CPL for Incremental & Non-Credit Credentials

Parchment

In this episode, we speak with Melanie Booth, Executive Director of the Higher Learning Commission’s Credential Lab, and Ian Roark, Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development & Innovation at Pima Community College, to discuss the policy and practice of making CPL a reality for different forms of credentials. Yeah, please.

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Guiding Students to Overcome Barriers To Student Success In Higher Education With Career Counseling

Creatrix Campus

Personal Development In addition to addressing professional development, career counseling provides tools for handling time, stress, and other personal difficulties. Create a fund to assist students who have unforeseen financial difficulties in an emergency situation. This is often the much talked about topic.

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Survey Highlights What Matters Most to Adult Learners

EAB

After scholarships, the second source of funding was financial aid and loans, and then in third and fourth were household income and family savings. And it's not just dependence, it's the anticipation and with prospective students really relying on that to fund their education. BD: Great, thank you. BD: Thank you, Todd.