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

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 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

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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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 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 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 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 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

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 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. Aug 10, 2017

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

More than that, I could probably have designed other activities which would have enhanced both their academic skills and their career readiness. The most effective career education is embedded within what students are already doing – its relevance is clearer that way. Jan 10, 2017

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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 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 Experiential Learning

MAY 8, 2018

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, 22: 148-159. [3] 2010) International experience and graduate employability: stakeholder perceptions on the connection. Higher Education, 59: 599-613 [4] Mercer, S. 3] Crossman, J.E. & & Clarke, M. System, 39, 427-436. [5]

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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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