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Creating the Study Hub with students as consultant partners

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In this post, Dr Kay Williams, Study Development Advisor at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD), explains the value of working with students as consultants to create the new Study Hub brand, and the Study Hub blog , which offer learning resources for students… How do you solve a problem with learning materials?

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Involving an industry partner in student projects, a win for all parties?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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.

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Involving an industry partner in student projects, a win for all parties?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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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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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Career Design in a Box: Embedding Career Education in What We Already Do

Teaching Matters Academic Support

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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Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs): Learning and teaching beyond disciplinary silos

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

At this early stage, the student receives feedback from their SLICC staff tutor, who offers them guidance on how they may gain greater insight during the learning experience and maximise the available opportunities. Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy.

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Let’s teach students what they need

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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. These projects also develop research and critical skills obtained when writing essays. May 22, 2018