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Welcome to the January issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

We also run an events listing page. The focus for January is employability, introduced by the Director of the University’s Careers Service, Shelagh Green. The experience at Edinburgh can be truly transformational for our students.

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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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SPS Outreach Network for Access/Adult Returner Students

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

However, such exceptional events did not only constitute the day-to-day challenges faced by the class of 2023 and their peers. Thanks to the IAD SPA funding, we were able to make this lunchtime get-together a monthly event, providing tea/coffee and snacks at future events. “I

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Mini-series: Great examples of using blogs in teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The course staff feel that a more private blog is a good way for students to express ideas and reflect on them (in a safe space), and really helps the course staff and the student to connect. Dr Simon Riley is using it in part of the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) project. Look out for it!

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Supporting Student Success in Higher Education: A Comprehensive Guide

Creatrix Campus

Additionally, successful students contribute to a vibrant and intellectually stimulating academic community. Career Readiness Higher education aims to prepare students for their future careers. Embrace Technology Leverage technology to enhance student learning and engagement.

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Spotlight on the 2024 Teaching Award winners: Staff offering exceptional levels of support to students

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

With the new student support model being rolled out across the entire university this year, we wanted to make sure we took time to recognise the efforts of these staff, who have supported studentsdevelopment, demonstrated commitment to their welfare and wellbeing, and built a sense of community within their cohort.

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High-Outcome Internships in Higher Ed: Bridge the Workforce Gap and Enhance Student Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 161 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Daniel Nivern

The Change Leader, Inc.

to impart these skills and have students develop them. It’s a combination of the technical skills, which students may have learned in an academic setting, and application of them in a practical sense, which likely hasn’t happened. It’s so important that students develop these soft skills and even harder skills as well.