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JANUARY 20, 2017

on Campus internship as an ‘Employability Projects Intern’, she became increasingly interested in the concept of graduate attributes, student employability and higher education. After her Employ.ed Jan 20, 2017

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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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OCTOBER 27, 2022

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.

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MAY 29, 2018

Helen also manages a team of careers consultants, and worked with Dr Lynsey Russell-Watts – careers consultant for ECA – on the career resilience project. Lynsey Russell-Watts Lynsey Russell-Watts is a Careers Consultant in the University of Edinburgh Careers Service, with a focus on Edinburgh College of Art students.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The careers service is directly involved in this course delivery with our school’s Careers Consultant providing valuable input during the initial stages. This aims to help students see the value of the attachment experience post-graduation and understand how to maximise the experience for their future career.

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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. ” Inc. 29 June 2001.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The workshop featured talks from representatives of Help Musicians and the Musicians Union, to highlight where students can get practical career support. Gina Black Gina Black is ECA’s Career Consultant, based at the University’s Careers Service. Her research examines communication in musical performance.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

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.

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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. Psychological Review 34.

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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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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 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). As part of this a PGR Supervisor Network will be launched.

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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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MARCH 4, 2025

With enrollment numbers dropping and student demographics evolving, corporate partnerships offer an opportunity to align academic programs with workforce needs , creating a win-win-win scenario for students, employers, and universities. And that was my initial foray into education consulting. Alana earned her B.A.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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

Kirsty Stewart Kirsty Stewart is the Edinburgh Award Coordinator at the University of Edinburgh.

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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. Gavin co-leads the development of SLICCs institution-wide with Simon.

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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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MAY 22, 2018

While at University of Edinburgh, Tobias has been involved with Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses voicing a student’s perspective, as well as being training manager at the student-led consultancy FreshSight Ltd. May 22, 2018

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MARCH 2, 2017

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

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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.

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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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JULY 9, 2024

Before this she led the CloudEARTHi project, where she developed the award-winning EARTH Centred Business Design, a circular net zero business model framework for first time founders and startups.

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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).

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

This is often a local clinical audit or service evaluation under the supervision of a medical consultant, which can be then used to make improvements to local medical practice.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Tobias Thejll-Madsen Tobias Thejll-Madsen has been working with the University’s Employability Consultancy since graduating in the summer of 2018. Amongst other projects, he has been a part of the creation of the Reflection Toolkit to support people with their reflective practice.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 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. She is a certified Coach, PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner and NLP Practitioner. She is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Sociology.

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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

The Employability thread of CDP asserts that all programmes should contain three clear employability steps: Self-awareness and skills development; Work-based learning; and Careers Transition Learning. A successful employability strategy needs to be adaptable.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 7, 2017

We are currently mapping this demand and through consultations and evaluations we will develop a strategic response, it is likely this model may be an adaption of provision at undergraduate level but will be shaped around the unique demands of the postgraduate experience. Although she also loves a lazy Sunday. Mar 7, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 22, 2024

Having graduated with a BSc in Geography from Durham University, Ross joined EY Management Consulting in London, eventually moving to Scotland in 1997 to work for Diageo, the global drinks giant. In 2009, he left corporate life and set up his own tech start up – Dogfish Mobile – just after Apple first launched their iPhone.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Others are a little more vague, like becoming a performance consultant, or training as a coach; professions which are unregulated, and where your experience, training, and tolerance for uncertainty are crucial in making things work. Some of them are well-structured and regulated (e.g.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This assignment gave me first-hand experience of the world of consultancy, and I have now used the experience gained to propose new, effective sustainable measures to management. This has helped the company achieve its goal to become carbon neutral.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The reform was initiated by the two Directors of Teaching in History (pre-honours and honours), the School Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Head of History, and was led by the pre-honours Director.

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JUNE 25, 2019

And our students don’t lack imagination!

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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. She is a certified Coach, PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner and NLP Practitioner. She is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh with a degree in Sociology.

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