University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The question is how to measure and quantify—and ultimately justify and act upon—the value of non-STEM majors to students, employers, and the governments that fund much of higher education. Such information can inform a college or university’s curriculum choices, hiring, and, yes, marketing strategy. New tools.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

This doesn’t mean they have to be fixed on a career path, but rather that they should make the most of their university experience (develop new skills, broaden horizons and networks through part-time work, student societies, or volunteering). We can’t afford to ignore this concern.

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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 Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

Offering choice presents a series of challenges and opportunities to the curriculum developer. For example, how do we work with the professional community to support the 850+ students that are undertaking the Bachelor of Medicine programme at any one time?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It is in this context that the University was awarded its first Key Action 203 Strategic Partnership funding by the European Commission in 2017 to develop the Network for Intercultural Competence to facilitate Entrepreneurship (NICE) in collaboration with 7 other European universities*. UoE Staff: Join us as virtual exchange facilitators!

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 4, 2023

Understanding the ACBSP Accreditation Process editor Tue, 04/04/2023 - 06:46 Accreditation Management Header Menu White 1NoneFooter base 1Blog Style 1Right Mary Clotilda SuvinOff Introduction to ACBSP Accreditation is an important process for educational institutions, particularly business schools.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

Delivering the Graduate Attributes “Each student at the University of Edinburgh joins us from different educational backgrounds, cultures and experiences. Seconded to the Institute for Academic Development he is developing his interests in reflection, experiential learning, and student agency, to develop SLICCs institution-wide.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This post belongs to Teaching Matters’ Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Embedding enterprise in the curriculum. This is a sentiment which I support because while some students will continue with an academic career, most students will go on to work in industry or become an entrepreneur. Education+ Training, 45, pp.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 10, 2022

Credit image: Sergey Pesterev, unsplash, CC0 In this extra post, Lindsay Knox reflects on her EdD dissertation findings, which look at how international students on the MSc Language Education programme understand graduate attributes, and what this could mean for curriculum transformation. Higher Education , 40, 409-422.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

She is the link Careers Consultant for the Moray House School of Education ( Suzanne.Agnew@ed.ac.uk ) Nov 30, 2017 dave.saunders@ed.ac.uk ) Suzanne Agnew Suzanne works at the University of Edinburgh Careers Service.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

His main teaching interest is in experiential learning at the research-teaching nexus, which he is currently exploring in a secondment to the Institute for Academic Development. Simon is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Gavin McCabe Dr Gavin McCabe leads the University’s Employability Consultancy.

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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.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 17, 2017

Recent graduates of two online programmes, one in Clinical Education, the other in the Clinical Management of Pain; were invited to participate. Both programmes are run entirely online with students based all over the world. The academic award was felt to help reduce imposter syndrome commonly reported in educational literature.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Pleasingly, it highlights the highly professional careers services within universities as a strength of the current Scottish system, but the recommendations reach well beyond central careers service provision, going to the heart of learning and teaching and the student experience. What does it mean to accredit skills and habits?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 18, 2020

In this post, Professor Tina Harrison (Assistant Principal, University of Edinburgh) and Stephanie Vallancey (Vice President Education, Students’ Association), provide an update on progress so far, encourage students and staff to comment on a draft of the reflective analysis and outline the next steps… WHAT IS ELIR?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

CC0 [Pixabay] This post sees Psychology student, Tobias, explaining how much he has valued project-based learning in his undergraduate experience, and how this has prepared him for the professional world… Education must prepare students for life. This universal set of qualities is appealing.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 26, 2023

And, through the ongoing work programme, three undergraduates from different schools are working with the GHA to develop different research channels focussed on children in FCACs: improving education data flows; modern technology to gather data; and the intersection between health, nutrition and education in programming.

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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. Bryan and K.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 2, 2024

Emma Taylor Emma Taylor is the Students as Change Agents Programme Manager, where she leads on the development, delivery, and management of SACHA. Her background is in Education, with experience teaching and tutoring at a variety of levels, from primary grades to master’s courses.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 30, 2018

– Peter Mathieson (Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh) Helen Szoor-McElhinney Dr Helen Szoor-McElhinney is the EPSRC Proteus Public Engagement Strategist, based at the Queens Medical Research Institute, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

DECEMBER 11, 2019

She plays a key role in the Scottish HE quality landscape as a member of QAA Scotland’s Advisory Board, chair of the sparqs University Advisory Group, and member of the Quality Arrangements for Scottish Higher Education (QASHE) group Dec 11, 2019

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Real-world learning opportunities These projects are more than just extracurricular activities; they are invaluable learning experiences that extend beyond the borders of traditional education. IMST-10 : A course for more senior students to build on their Makerspace experience and take on mentoring roles.

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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. Looking back, there is nostalgia about the various enhancement initiatives I’ve designed or led.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

Next steps For more ideas on curriculum design, see these Teaching Matters articles: Developing Reflection in the Curriculum History for the future: Update on the new pre-honours curriculum in History Diversifying the medical curriculum using open educational resources Fair’s Fair: embedding equality and diversity into the curriculum Sabrina Valeria (..)

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JUNE 19, 2018

Credit: Mihaela Bodlovic Following on from Simon Fokt’s recent post on flipped lectures , biology undergraduate Craig McMillan shares findings from his final year research project, which highlight the importance of interactive lectures in developing skills for becoming an effective scientist… The continued use of traditional, didactic lectures (..)

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Experiential education: Defining features for curriculum and pedagogy (23 August 2018) Dr Simon Beames, a senior lecturer in Outdoor Learning at Moray House School of Education, along with his colleagues, presents a theoretical framework of experiential education that is centred around six defining features.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

Ellen was EUSA President 20/22, and Tara was EUSA Vice President Education 21/22. Ellen and Tara then move on to talking about these areas through three different, yet overlapping, lenses: Research: Ellen and Tara want to see the University engage ALL of its students in the research work that it is so proud of as an institution.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

They proceeded to explain how they would carry on with this decade-old project regardless, even if it was dropped from the curriculum, such is the value they place on it. Each year, senior students team together in Creative Director roles to form their own profit-generating agencies.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

While disciplines will continue to underpin the foundations of our knowledge, the issue of interdisciplinary learning and teaching is becoming increasingly relevant for universities preparing students for a changing world. Nonetheless, in the UK, higher education largely remains structured on a conventional, disciplinary basis.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

program , which saw us developing a course prototype delivered in the form of a website , a Learn page, and a final presentation. This was under the University’s Employ.ed

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

Ellen was EUSA President 20/22, and Tara was EUSA Vice President Education 21/22. This post summarises Ellen MacRae and Tara Gold’s keynote talk: What even is a University anyway?, and includes a video of their presentation at McEwan Hall. This post is part of the Hot Topic: Learning & Teaching Conference 2022.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The Living Lab programme is also working on how to support more engaging and diversified student learning. This is inspired by insights from studies of science technology and innovation (STIS) into the ‘messiness’ of real-life innovation, and from approaches in studio-based design education.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

At least I know some people in the career services department, other staff on the SACHA program, the opportunities that can accrue to me through this program, meet wonderful people from all over the world who are also having their education at Edinburgh. He is always willing to contribute to the greater good of society.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2018

We should be training all of our students to excel in their chosen career, have a greater awareness of what that career could be, and put them in the position to proactively define their career after graduation. You could call it responsible education! Oooooh, that sounds lofty, how do you do that ?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The student society features four local and two international projects, in addition to running various STEM teaching projects since 2012. The most recent of which is Project DIEM (Developing Intermediate Educational Materials). DIEM began life as an international project under the EWB-UK banner.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Furthermore, we hope they will gain a near-peer role model with our student, who is currently in higher education. We are using the Student-Led, Individually-Created Course (SLICC) reflective e-portfolio for experiential learning as the learning and assessment framework, which is a piloted and supported initiative.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Reflection fits into a diverse curriculum in many ways. For instance, reflection is inherently tied to experiential learning (see Simon Beames’ excellent post on defining features of experiential education), and therefore supports making the most of placements, work experiences, outreach activity, and years abroad.

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