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Welcome to the Sept-Oct Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Careers and Employability

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this first post, Colm Harmon, Vice-Principal Students, introduces the series, contextualising its importance in the landscape of the current Curriculum Transformation Programme. Helen Stringer, Assistant Director of the Careers Service, then provides some insights into the content of the series, before Colm offers a concluding statement.

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Spotlight on Joint Degrees: Negotiating ‘best practice’ across the University

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. To that end, our series of internal conversations will shortly be expanded to include our partner Schools. Oct 1, 2018

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

There are many different projects with students and staff co-creating the curriculum at universities around the world, although these initiatives are still relatively rare. Indeed, often it can be difficult to delineate exactly what is co-creation of the curriculum and where these projects are taking place.

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Mini-series: The importance of diversifying the curriculum: Reflections from the Senate Task Group

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

In 2018, the Senate Learning and Teaching Committee task group, “ Promoting inclusion, equality and diversity in the curriculum ”, was created to address these concerns. The membership of the group spanned all three colleges, academics and professional services, and created a space for holistic discussions about this to occur.

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Mini-series: What is a living lab?

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Collaborative Living Lab projects can provide answers and guidance for operations and professional services staff, experiential learning opportunities for students, and gateways for research impact for academics. What makes a Living Lab project? A Living Lab project should aim to: Solve a real life problem.

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Spotlight on Joint Degrees: Negotiating 'best practice' across the University

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. To that end, our series of internal conversations will shortly be expanded to include our partner Schools. Oct 1, 2018

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Welcome to the August issue of Teaching Matters: Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas 2018

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

With Spotlight on Joint Degrees , a monthly blog post will bring you notes from the field, which we hope will encourage discussion across the university about what joint degrees should look like, and facilitate productive dialogue between students, professional services staff and academics.