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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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Musical Pathways

Teaching Matters Student Employment

They brought together students, staff and external professionals and resulted in the creation of important new resources including updated, practical links to current services and freely available resources for music industry professional development. Her research examines communication in musical performance.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

These matrices provide the cornerstone of the Business School’s MSc Edinburgh Award in Professional Development. The MSc Edinburgh Award in Professional Development now has 216 students actively participating, making it one of the most successful versions of the Award currently offered within the university.

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Excellence in Doctoral Education and Career Development Programme

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The Excellence in Doctoral Education and Career Development Programme is made up of three interrelated work streams: supervisor training and support, mentorship and wellbeing and personal and professional development record. As part of this a PGR Supervisor Network will be launched.

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A recap of the 2023-24 MIT Career Exploration Series

CAPD

The Career Exploration Series is an initiative led by Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) at MIT to promote career exploration throughout the fall and IAP for students and postdocs. The CAPD Employer Relations team worked with employers to organize career exploration events.

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Steps to success: Connecting careers to student support

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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. ” Inc. 29 June 2001.

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Engaging the professional community in teaching medical students

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The Edinburgh Medical School uses Student Selected Components ( SSCs ) as part of the medicine timetable to deliver a range of learning outcomes which mainly relate to developing research skills, and professional development including teamwork and teaching skills.

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