Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In this post, Dora celebrates the university’s success in nurturing student start-ups and underscores its dedication to fostering entrepreneurship by embedding enterprise within the curriculum. Dora Handrea is a Lead Enterprise Executive at Edinburgh Innovations (EI)↗️, The University of Edinburgh.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Credit: pixabay, geralt, CC0 As part of its ambitious Vision 2025 strategy, the University of Edinburgh is committed to provide all students with an international experience. UoE Students: You can apply for NICE here and INCiTE here !

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As the SACHA team supports 30+ such student groups each year, we have gathered lessons from our experiences and the different scenarios that we often see groups encounter during the programme. It is likely that each team member is an active participant, brings their own expertise to the table and has a clear role to play.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

Students are provided with formative feedback on an ‘Interim Reflective Report’, where the students reflect on their learning and their progress towards achieving their personalised learning outcomes. SLICCs are developing momentum and becoming embedded within existing programmes of study.

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JUNE 25, 2023

The choice-based credit system (CBCS) emerges as a revolutionary solution, offering a flexible and student-centered approach to learning. The Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS) is an educational system that offers students greater freedom in choosing their courses. What is a Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS)?

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It provides a level of assurance to students, employers, and other stakeholders that the institution meets certain standards for quality and effectiveness. ACBSP accreditation is widely recognized by employers, students, and other stakeholders as a mark of quality and excellence in business education. What is ACBSP?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

One of us (Kieran) convenes the course; two of us (Sabrina and Joel) were among the students who took it in its first year (2016/17). Normally, those people are other political theorists but there is no reason why they should not be students. Students can offer a fresh take on old controversies.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In this post, Dr Sarah Ivory, a lecturer in the Business School, reflects on why an interdisciplinary course is so important to prepare undergraduate business students for professional employment in an uncertain world… If you ask academics ‘ what is the purpose of undergraduate education ?’,

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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. But how can this integration be achieved?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 2019

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. It is cited as a reason for choosing the University of Edinburgh Business School.

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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). For these international students, their Masters is a high-stakes investment requiring negotiation of both an academic and professional identity.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

During this time, I had often thought about how I could harness the power of interdisciplinarity and use it to enhance the public engagement with research I design and develop for the team. They were led by our superb students from interdisciplinary subject areas across the University.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This post is part of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Series: Careers and Employability. When government’s policy eye turns in your direction, it can be a mixed blessing. It is vital that there is alignment between the skills individuals and the economy demand and those our education and skills system provide.

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MAY 22, 2018

It’s a mixed picture… Recently, a 4th year student in a very practical subject told me he had never had any hands-on experience in his degree. Moreover, in exam periods students are not necessarily thinking about employable attributes. about 74% of students start working after their first degree. I doubt it.

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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. This aligned with our work harnessing co- and extra-curricular learning to support students’ development and impact.

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JUNE 19, 2018

This method of teaching merely encourages students to simply remember the information being delivered, as opposed to thinking about it in any detail. As students move along the trajectory from novice to expert, far more is required of them than simply accumulating a vast mass of knowledge.

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MARCH 18, 2020

A REMINDER ELIR is an external review of the quality of the student learning experience that we provide. It is important because it provides an opportunity for us to reflect on our approach to learning and teaching and the student learning experience. We welcome comments from students and staff on the draft RA.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Teaching Matters is the University of Edinburgh’s website for debate about learning and teaching, for sharing ideas and approaches to teaching, and for showcasing our successes, including academic colleagues who are leading the way in delivering brilliant teaching. We also run an events listing page. The focus for March is Peer Learning.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome to the September and October Learning & Teaching Enhancement Theme: Careers and Employability. In this first post, Colm Harmon, Vice-Principal Students, introduces the series, contextualising its importance in the landscape of the current Curriculum Transformation Programme.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In this post on ongoing reflective practice at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Susan Rhind, Nina Tomlin, Jenna Richardson, Jessie Paterson, and Paul Wood outline the value placed on reflective ability in the veterinary profession.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In this post, Dora celebrates the University’s success in nurturing student start-ups, and underscores its dedication to fostering entrepreneurship by embedding enterprise within the curriculum. This post belongs to Teaching Matters’ Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Embedding enterprise in the curriculum.

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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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DECEMBER 11, 2019

It also covers how we approve and manage collaborative provision, secure academic standards, and enhance the student learning experience. This chapter covers how we manage our collaborative provision, which is where we work in partnership with other organisations to deliver courses and programmes. These can be emailed to ELIRsupport@ed.ac.uk.

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MARCH 27, 2018

CC0 Teaching the Career Development Planning course, a compulsory non-credit bearing course for second year undergraduates in the Business School, has its challenges. The student cohort is large and diverse with students at all stages of career planning.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

There is also no burden on staff to find placements as it is the student’s role on this course to initiate and maintain a link with an external organisation. This surely fosters a proactive and creative approach among students to find suitable opportunities.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Any student attending all the preceding sessions would already have delivered a presentation eight times. Many students disliked the exercise, but grudgingly accepted its usefulness – and these students had the most to benefit. Attendance and engagement were extremely high.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

Read Natalie Gilfedder’s Teaching Matters post ‘ You are employable – all you have to do is show it! ’ on enhancing employability using the Graduate Attributes framework. Gill Aitken Gill Aitken is the Programme Director of the MSc in Clinical Education and the Director of Quality for the Edinburgh Medical School.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The students were very positive in their feedback saying they enjoyed that they felt as if they worked on a project that can actually have an impact on society, that there was not a single solution to the project which allowed them to think creatively about different solutions and have intellectual debates amongst their groups.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

Foster: With SACHA it’s not all about what the university can give students through lectures and seminars but what the students can also give back to the university. It is a “give and take initiative” with the aim to involve students in the decision-making process in the University.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

Of course I believed students were developing ‘transferable skills’, but I was largely concerned with the nitty-gritty of the immediate skills they had to develop to perform well in their assessments! The most effective career education is embedded within what students are already doing – its relevance is clearer that way.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The course aims to teach students how to tackle climate change through a greater understanding of not only the science but also the business and economic risks and opportunities. Another key feature of the course is the multi-national and cross-disciplinary make-up of the students, coming together from a range of backgrounds and cultures.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Reflection can therefore have an important role in the process of building successful courses and programmes, and moreover, it can be a useful explicit element within the curriculum. Reflection within the curriculum Reflection can be effectively facilitated in most contexts and is an important skill. Why was that?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In summer 2016, the History Subject Area embarked on the largest overhaul of its curriculum in a generation. The Historian’s Toolkit is an entirely new training course for first-year History students, and the foundation of the new curriculum. The course is fully integrated into the first-year curriculum.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Both students and staff at the University of Edinburgh recognise the benefits these projects offer across a wide range of academic, professional, and personal skills.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

‘Over our dead bodies’ was the response I got when proposing to my final year undergrad Graphic Design students that we phase out the Design Agency scheme. 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.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

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. The talk moves to questioning how a University can enable these aspirations.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Ryan Gilmour Ryan Gilmour is an electrical engineering student in the School of Engineering, with a passion for renewable energy, teaching and developing solutions for the 1 billion people without electricity access. This usually involves the lovely realisation that STEM is everywhere and very relevant. And off she went.

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