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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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

MAY 29, 2018

Walker et al (2006) have demonstrated that it is both possible and desirable to design learning experiences that foster resilience, and certainly the post-workshop responses indicated a positive shift amongst the student participants. Educational Studies. 32(3): 251–264. May 29, 2018

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This post belongs to the Hot topic series: Student Partnership Agreement 2023. In the case of Music, though, students usually identify very strongly with their specialism and expect it to remain central to their lives. Gina Black Gina Black is ECA’s Career Consultant, based at the University’s Careers Service.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image credit: Pixabay, pexels, CC0 In this post, Susan Bird, the Link Careers Consultant for the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Edinburgh, explores a recent opportunity to strengthen ties between the Careers Service and evolving student support systems. Making a meal of it! How does it work in practice?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

I graduated, as a student of Architecture, in 2016; a year replete with uncertainty. To this end, the Employability Consultancy has done a lot of work revising the University of Edinburgh’s Graduate Attributes , which, at a base level, can be used as a guide towards structuring reflection. Uncertainty is a given.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 20, 2016

I used ACJ twice during the Edinburgh Award, first for us to see and comment on other students’ work and for others to provide me with feedback on ways that I could improve my work, and then again at the end of the Edinburgh Award, where ACJ allowed me and my fellow students to peer assess our final work. Psychological Review 34.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

There is also no burden on staff to find placements as it is the student’s role on this course to initiate and maintain a link with an external organisation. This surely fosters a proactive and creative approach among students to find suitable opportunities.

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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 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

MAY 11, 2017

Central to the work is a need for extensive communication and consultation with all relevant stakeholders (students, supervisors, Colleges, Schools and services). From late May, discussion groups with postgraduate research students will be held across the institution. As part of this a PGR Supervisor Network will be launched.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2017

The Edinburgh Award is an initiative that recognises students’ involvement with co- and extra-curricular activities while at University. 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.

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CAPD

JULY 11, 2024

The CAPD Employer Relations team worked with employers to organize career exploration events. As a part of the Employer Relations team’s events, 434 individual student-employer coffee chats were held with 29 employers during fall 2023 and IAP 2024.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 10, 2018

CC0 [pixabay] When this is the first thing you say to a class of 200+ medical students, it raises a few eyebrows! When you say this to staff, it raises a few eyebrows with them as well… In the undergraduate medical curriculum, the Student Selected Components (SSCs) programme amounts to 15% of academic credit for the whole medicine programme.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

It’s a mixed picture… Recently, a 4th year student in a very practical subject told me he had never had any hands-on experience in his degree. Moreover, in exam periods students are not necessarily thinking about employable attributes. about 74% of students start working after their first degree. I doubt it.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

SLICCs let students go further and deeper into their academic programme, pursuing their passion and motivation for the subject in new ways. Fresh Sight Edinburgh, a student-led consultancy for ‘socially conscious clients’ (charities, start-ups and NGOs ) in Edinburgh being one example. But there is no reason why it could not.

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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). For these international students, their Masters is a high-stakes investment requiring negotiation of both an academic and professional identity.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

Students are provided with formative feedback on an ‘Interim Reflective Report’, where the students reflect on their learning and their progress towards achieving their personalised learning outcomes. Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The lecturer can then encourage students to use these reflections to guide their actions, e.g., study the challenging topic in depth, explore materials around the exciting idea, or find a way to answer their question. This forces students to contextualise their learning more broadly. Why was that?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 9, 2024

Go into meetings with an open mind and engage with students’ ideas from a place of possibility, rather than immediately focusing on potential alternatives or pitfalls. It’s also helpful to try to find out what each member of the group wants to get out of the experience. – Lesley Kelly 2. Think Positive! – Valerie McIntosh 7.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

Choice is essential Choice is essential, as students need to gain the professional and academic skills to allow them to go into much greater depth when they graduate. Inevitably, when students make these choices it is linked to career exploration. Nevertheless, the broad philosophy underlying the mantra remains strong.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 2019

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. It is cited as a reason for choosing the University of Edinburgh Business School.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 27, 2018

The student cohort is large and diverse with students at all stages of career planning. A key challenge is meeting the needs of students and getting them to see the course as relevant to them, rather than just “going through the motions”. 2010): Motivating students to learn 3rd edition London: Routledge Gibbs, G.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

Seconded to the Institute for Academic Development he is developing his interests in reflection, experiential learning, and student agency, to develop SLICCs institution-wide. It is for colleges, schools and programmes to utilise, link to and embed these skills and mindsets in teaching delivery and supervision.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 7, 2017

Sessions generally have between 10-20 students, are usually run in groups and are timetabled out of class but are often attached to a course. I felt I owed it to the Scheme and the younger students to give them the help I had’. Academic peer learning is not tutoring, nor is it teaching but facilitated learning. Mar 7, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 3, 2023

Employability is not just the job of a Careers Service. Self-awareness: The development of students’ self-awareness is at the very foundation of many of the initiatives outlined in this blog series. A successful employability strategy needs to be adaptable.

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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. We know from students that it is critical for their engagement with the review to be at least acknowledged. or gavin.mccabe@ed.ac.uk

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 22, 2024

I believe that there is a strong overlap between what we often call an “employability mindset” and something we refer to as an “entrepreneurial mindset”. It began as an extra-curricular initiative run by the Student Enterprise Team and is now being embedded across core curriculum teaching at the request of academic staff.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The course aims to teach students how to tackle climate change through a greater understanding of not only the science but also the business and economic risks and opportunities. Another key feature of the course is the multi-national and cross-disciplinary make-up of the students, coming together from a range of backgrounds and cultures.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It was established to create a support system for the students of the MSc Performance Psychology , in Moray House School of Education and Sport. We have a pool of trained alumni who are available both in Edinburgh and abroad, who can help to support students. This Masters consistently brings together a special group of people.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 13, 2017

Importantly, it might be that a student reading this piece might need to explore a bit further the array of EDOs at the university and beyond during their studies… Next steps: Find out how the Careers Service can help students find employability development opportunities What does it mean to be a University of Edinburgh Graduate?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Driven by a variety of factors, including growing student numbers, changing student expectations, the renewed emphasis on teaching excellence throughout the sector, our Teaching Programme Review and external examiners’ comments, we wanted to provide a curriculum that is sustainable and speaks to the challenges of the 21st century.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 25, 2019

We had some pretty famous professors there, and the idea that they could do top research AND share it with us students was particularly attractive. The students we teach in Earth Sciences and Physical Geography today will build infrastructure, look for resources, solve environmental problems and potentially govern us in the future.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2018

Therefore, our higher education consultants at The Change Leader want to offer a series of articles that lay out where we believe higher education is going in the face of all of these challenges. There are opportunities for higher education to transform and grow. Community colleges are not immune to reinvention. in these instances.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

At 30% of these institutions, students recoup their educational costs within five years or less. In addition to the PEP, Michael developed the Economic Mobility Index (EMI) , with and for thirdway.org , to examine the top schools serving low-income students across the U.S. to gauge how they are doing.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 17, 2019

How could we replicate the success of this Edinburgh Award with our far larger Undergraduate student population without diluting the quality? Answer: Get our students involved in its design and delivery. These are delivered by a newly formed and hugely dedicated branch of PALS, our DevPALS, led by third year student, Sophie Mitchinson.

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