Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 4, 2017

The focus for January is employability, introduced by the Director of the University’s Careers Service, Shelagh Green. Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. We also run an events listing page.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 1, 2018

In this month’s issue, Teaching Matters is delighted to be working in close partnership with the Careers Service to showcase innovative and interesting teaching practices that focus on Employability and Graduate Attributes.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 31, 2023

The project, funded by a PTAS grant, brought together academic staff from Moray House School of Education with practitioners in the Careers Service. One of the project aims has been to develop a sustainable career learning intervention which will be integrated within various provisions offered to students by the Careers Service.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2017

There are currently over 70 different versions of the Edinburgh Award recognising various student activities including part-time work experience, student involvement in the media, peer-assisted learning facilitation and charity fundraising.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

With very little experience of the Edinburgh Fringe festival as a 2019 fresher, I decided to apply for the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas internship, which required event promotion and social media management. Both skills I had been fortunate enough to practise at a student-led mental health charity the preceding year during term time.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 20, 2016

ACJ is like a crowd-sourced/social media style feedback and assessment tool, which is really innovative and very powerful. Current areas of responsibility include: the Edinburgh Award, SLICCs (Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses), Making Transitions Personal and the Development Hub.

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