Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this post, Kit Daniel Searle, University Teacher in Operational Research (OR) at the School of Mathematics shares their experience embedding a low-risk consultancy project within their course curriculum highlighting the perks of student-industry collaboration. This now gives the students a platform to showcase their skills.

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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 Student Employment

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Jobs are scarce and a university degree will no longer guarantee immediate employment. After we leave Higher Education, we apparently find ourselves pitted against each other, competing for those scarce job opportunities. I was reminded of an article I read at the very beginning of my studies in 2012.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 29, 2018

Available at [link] [Last accessed 18/12/17] Walker, C, Gleaves, A and Grey, J (2006): ‘Can Students within Higher Education Learn to be Resilient and, Educationally Speaking, Does it Matter?’ Educational Studies. 32(3): 251–264.

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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 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 Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

Defining: Bringing together all the information gathered from the consultations, as well as our supervisors’ and our personal ideas. Delivering: Designing a website, Learn page and final presentation to communicate findings from the consultations, brainstorming sessions and prototypes for the course.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

In this post, Lynsey Russell-Watts, Careers Consultant for ECA, discusses her involvement in the recent Graphic Design in a Box project. This aimed to improve design-related careers resources in schools, but the final-year students involved also gained a wide range of career benefits from their participation.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 10, 2022

Graduate attribute frameworks have long been part of the conversation in HE as universities endeavour to prepare students for the supercomplex future they face (Barnett, 2000). Higher Education , 40, 409-422. Journal of Further and Higher Education , 37 (5), 591-605. References Barnett, R.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

Simon is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy. 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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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 10, 2018

Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy.

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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 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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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. References: Brophy, J.

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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

JULY 9, 2024

She led the BOOSTalent project which aims to foster innovation in AI and machine learning (ML) across five European Higher Education Institutions particularly in the fields of aerospace, electronics, advanced materials, sustainability, and biodiversity.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 22, 2020

Additionally, analysis reports are passed to each school ahead of Welcome Week, highlighting common themes within students’ responses for each school and can provide areas to address at the cohort level. 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 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. A successful employability strategy needs to be adaptable.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest challenges students face is determining their return on investment for obtaining a college degree. Since leaving the Department of Education, Michael has found that college is still worth the investment, providing graduates with more opportunities, on average, than non-college grads.

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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. All project documents can be found on the QAA Scotland website.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 22, 2024

As we developed our thinking, I realised that what was actually inspiring me was the potential we have to impact the lives and careers of our students, by broadening the spectrum of positive destinations and outcomes available to them, one of the core aims of any education.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

She has also run her own business working with a number of stakeholders across the private, public and charitable sectors providing consultancy and project management support. We also knew that we weren’t faring quite as well as some of our comparator institutions in the UK.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 25, 2017

Whenever anyone wants to consult me, I have a set of links I can send (which saves huge amounts of time). So, if you are convinced and want a place to start PLEASE consider encouraging your PhD students to write a short post for the IAD blog for researchers. And raw material for the next presentation, paper or book.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Alana Rose, Vice President of Academic Networks at InStride, about the transformative potential of workforce education, employer-funded education , and workforce development programs. million Americans who left higher education before earning a degree. According to Alana, there are 41.5

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