Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Seeing the imperfections, assumptions and short-cuts needed to implement research into practice is revelatory to students. Students keep a blog (≥10 weeks) and write a reflective report of their experiences. This surely fosters a proactive and creative approach among students to find suitable opportunities.

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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

MARCH 3, 2023

Employability is not just the job of a Careers Service. Planning and managing one’s career is a skill in itself, and Sharon’s blog post illustrates how student’s need support and reassurance as they develop their self-awareness. Alongside internship modules, we deliver a range of Career Management modules.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 13, 2017

But, at a personal level, how does an international student perceive they develop their employability during a one-year Masters-level study in a UK university? This is the title of my PhD research. However, this blog post is a reflexive piece about developing my employability during my Masters programme. Jan 13, 2017

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 3, 2024

Ruth is Assistant Director, Careers Service, and SACHA Programme Director, and Emma is SACHA Programme Manager. Ruth Donnelly Ruth Donnelly is Assistant Director, Careers Service, and SACHA Programme Director. This series is introduced in the this post by Emma Taylor and Ruth Donnelly. What is SACHA?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 1, 2018

And a recent investigation into the perceptions of organisations who recruit our students suggests we are making progress in this regard. Developing the employability and graduate attributes of our students is consistent with research-led learning and teaching.

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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 Student Employment

MAY 21, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash,Alejandro Escamilla, CC0 In this post, Eilidh Steele, Internships Manager at the Careers Service, highlights the Insights Programme, which exemplifies the fourth and final strand of the Widening Participation Strategy: ‘Support to Progress”. She is responsible for the Insights Programme and the Employ.ed

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 4, 2017

For example, think about the last task you gave to a student, directly or indirectly, academic or non-academic, practical or conceptual. Now multiply this across every task, experience and interaction a student has with the University during their lifetime with us.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

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’. Since that time, she has maintained her professional practice and developed her research in the field of education.

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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

With the group labour market project my aim was to make the assessment more relevant to the students (they will be entering the labour market at some point in the future after all) and to embrace the concept of students as co-creators of knowledge. So what was the result?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

In 2016/17, Focus On took the postgraduate research (PGR) student experience as its theme, an important aspect of which was postgraduates who teach. Omolabake Fakunle Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle is a MSc Educational Research graduate and current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Aug 10, 2017

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

This led me to reflect on my previous teaching experience: how often had I asked students to really reflect on their learning and on the range of skills and experiences it provided? Before retraining as a careers adviser, Lynsey was Lecturer in French at the University of Nottingham. Jan 10, 2017

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The Historian’s Toolkit takes students through all steps of the historical research process. The starting point is the skillset our students require, based on the QAA/SQA History Benchmarking Statement , and the order in which they need to apply them. At the same time, we have incorporated a new awareness of employability.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

However, common measures and indicators of student success in higher education typically include the following: Academic Achievement Academic success is often a central component of student success. Career Outcomes The transition to the workforce or further education is an essential aspect of student success.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

These projects also develop research and critical skills obtained when writing essays. Moreover, students engage with the ‘real word’ and solve ‘real problems’ compared to artificial ones posed by a lecturer. These are skills required to function in the professional world and match attributes outlined by the University.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

I particularly enjoyed the interpersonal element of supporting academics and encouraging them to develop their advertising skills to engage the public in their vital research. I had worked in customer service roles prior to this internship.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

In addition to the content from the subject-matter expertise and professional skills development sessions, the fellows also had access to EAB’s research library and experts, and they were paired with a partner to help develop ideas and get feedback along the way.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since its establishment, the CAA has been instrumental in promoting the development of higher education in the UAE and ensuring that students receive a high-quality education. The CAA has also played a key role in promoting the UAE as a hub for education and research, attracting students and scholars from around the world.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Maybe, in response to these questions, you thought back to a course that asked challenging questions and encouraged learners to research and find the answers independently. This critical examination of past experiences with the intent of learning from them is a part of what is meant by reflection.

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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

CC0 [pixabay] Deborah Fowlis, Careers Consultant, shares with Teaching Matters how interactive workshops with chemical industry experts has helped Chemistry students prepare for the workplace… Many Chemistry students are keen to use their degree knowledge directly in a graduate job. May 3, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 31, 2018

This means that around 50% of PhD graduates are effectively going through a career change at the end of their degrees (with the exception perhaps of those who will go on to do research in private institutions). The PhD Horizons Careers Conference is a great place for PhD students to find out more about their future career options.

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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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