Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of student employability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

This doesn’t mean they have to be fixed on a career path, but rather that they should make the most of their university experience (develop new skills, broaden horizons and networks through part-time work, student societies, or volunteering). We can’t afford to ignore this concern. Jan 10, 2017

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MARCH 21, 2023

AI has been used in the UK graduate recruitment market for over a decade yet currently remains in the minority, with only 10% of Institute for Student Employment (ISE) members saying they use it. Unilever used a system which didn’t use name, educational background or work experience, this increased female candidates by 16%.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Supporting Student Success in Higher Education: A Comprehensive Guide editor Thu, 07/20/2023 - 04:08 Higher education is an exciting and transformative journey, offering students a wealth of opportunities for personal growth and academic achievement. This is where Student Success in Higher Education peeps in.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 3, 2024

Students as change agents (SACHA) Welcome to the Hot Topic series for June and July 2024: Students as Change Agents (SACHA). Ruth is Assistant Director, Careers Service, and SACHA Programme Director, and Emma is SACHA Programme Manager. This series is introduced in the this post by Emma Taylor and Ruth Donnelly.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 31, 2023

Photo credit: Unsplash CC0 In this extra post, Stephen Sowa shares insights from the Sustainable Careers Projects he spearheaded which aimed at supporting students in developing sustainable career paths whilst navigating the increase of job automation. Cast your mind back to when you were a student.

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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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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 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 Student Employment

MARCH 3, 2023

Employability is important to all higher education stakeholders, and a core factor when students are selecting their degree subject and place of study. Employability is not just the job of a Careers Service. Alongside internship modules, we deliver a range of Career Management modules.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Let’s learn everything in detail about CAA in the UAE Ministry of education. CAA is UAE’s official higher education quality assurance organization. It accredits all higher education institutions not affiliated with the federal government by taking them through a series of quality assurance steps and offering them a license to operate.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I was motivated not only to gain professional accreditation via a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, but also to reflect on my teaching practice and pedagogical approaches within the context of my new role that involved designing and delivering training for postgraduate researchers and research staff across career stages.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Employing an undergraduate as an intern falls outside traditional views of student and staff roles because it transforms the student into an employee in a department alongside permanent members of staff. Fortunately, at The University of Edinburgh, the Careers Service have made it easy to do. The Employ.ed Grandidge, M.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 1, 2018

If you would like to explore this further, please do contact me – I’d love to hear what it means to you.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

What better way for my final year students, products of the successful peer intensive curriculum, to test their skills outside of the University setting. Creative problem solving, risk taking, lateral thinking, communication, project management, amongst the many core design skills this student employed in order to fulfil this unique ‘task’.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 31, 2018

The PhD Horizons Careers Conference is a great place for PhD students to find out more about their future career options. I also hope that the University continues to organise events like this and to work with PhD students to advise them on the importance of career planning from the early stages of their degrees.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 13, 2017

The one-year Masters in a UK university is intensive; even more so for an international student in a new teaching and cultural environment. According to many large scale studies on student decision making and outlines in policy statements, higher education is a step towards enhancing career prospects: in order words, developing employability.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 4, 2017

Now multiply this across every task, experience and interaction a student has with the University during their lifetime with us. Collectively these weave a rich tapestry of attributes unique to each student. Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 22, 2020

If you or colleagues are interested in implementing the Pre-arrival or Start-of-year reviews, or if you would like to talk about ways to follow up with your students then please contact us – kirsty.stewart2@ed.ac.uk 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

JANUARY 9, 2017

It also seeks to enhance the learning and development opportunities these activities provide and encourage students to see the relevance of these activities in preparing them for their future. We wanted to engage pro-actively with the HEAR and use it to benefit student learning from co- and extra-curricular activity.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Real-world learning opportunities These projects are more than just extracurricular activities; they are invaluable learning experiences that extend beyond the borders of traditional education. IMST-10 : A course for more senior students to build on their Makerspace experience and take on mentoring roles.

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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 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 Experiential Learning

JULY 2, 2019

I unashamedly reveal my bias this month: I am a huge supporter of embedding placements and fieldwork opportunities into course design. They tap into key pedagogical approaches, such as active, experiential , place-based and affective learning, which can lead to authentic learning experiences.

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MAY 22, 2018

CC0 [Pixabay] This post sees Psychology student, Tobias, explaining how much he has valued project-based learning in his undergraduate experience, and how this has prepared him for the professional world… Education must prepare students for life. This universal set of qualities is appealing.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

The strategic context Every four years, QAA Scotland undertakes a cycle of reviews of all Scottish higher education institutions, focusing on enhancing the student experience – this is called the Enhancement-Led Institutional Review, or ELIR. Labake’s PhD research is exploring internationalisation of higher education and employability.

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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.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The joys of Christmas and New Year’s Eve gradually sink away into February and every year students are faced with the daunting question: What have you got planned for summer? As if graduating from structured systems of education into the absolute free-fall of life is casual. And if you are an emerging fourth year like me: What’s next?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

At least I know some people in the career services department, other staff on the SACHA program, the opportunities that can accrue to me through this program, meet wonderful people from all over the world who are also having their education at Edinburgh. I must say that SACHA has given me that connection with the university.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 14, 2017

I call this an enabler event because it gets students to think about the importance of their health and wellbeing, using a range of fun recreational activities. Support services in the University also take part in this event.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 8, 2018

As a University, this presents a unique challenge – particularly when considering the aim of ‘giving our students the best possible set of skills for their future, and the opportunity to draw from deep expertise outside their core discipline [1] ’. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, 22: 148-159.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

For instance, reflection is inherently tied to experiential learning (see Simon Beames’ excellent post on defining features of experiential education), and therefore supports making the most of placements, work experiences, outreach activity, and years abroad. Reflection fits into a diverse curriculum in many ways.

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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.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 3, 2018

Might chemistry students gain the same benefit from experiential learning? To test this out, Philip Bailey (Head of Teaching, School of Chemistry) and Deborah Fowlis (Careers Consultant, Careers Service) co-ordinated interactive workshops run by experts from the chemical industry, enabling students to experience real workplace scenarios.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I was motivated not only to gain professional accreditation via a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, but also to reflect on my teaching practice and pedagogical approaches within the context of my new role that involved designing and delivering training for postgraduate researchers and research staff across career stages.

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