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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Director Nizhoni Marks says what the support entails depends on a student’s needs. Additional financial support includes student employment opportunities, and COIN helps students navigate that process. Among the resources available is the COIN American Indian & Indigenous Scholarships list.

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Tenured faculty in steady decline while part-time and graduate workers rise, per report

University Business

. “Tenure is the primary means of protecting academic freedom and exists not only to protect individual faculty members but also to benefit students and serve the common good by ensuring the quality of teaching and research in higher education,” wrote AAUP in the report.

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Evolution and revolution: preparing for the future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

I was reflecting on this recently while discussing the evolution and definitions of employability, and the benefit of a shared understanding and conception. If we truly mean for the University of Edinburgh experience to be the launch pad for future career success, how does employability align with our learning and teaching?

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The QAA Approach to Higher Education Quality Assurance

Creatrix Campus

Definition of Quality Assurance in Higher Education Definition of Quality Assurance in Higher Education Quality Assurance (QA) in higher education refers to the systematic evaluation and monitoring of the quality of education being provided by higher education institutions.

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Reflections of an Edinburgh Award tutor

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The last question that I ask the students is whether their university should offer the award at all, is it of value to them? Most definitely. Neil Speirs Dr Speirs works on a number of Widening Participation projects as a practitioner and researcher. The certificate? Not really is the answer. The process and experience?

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How can our Graduate Attributes inform programme and course development? Challenges and opportunities

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) offer another approach and way forward. This is a reflective framework for experiential learning, where students consider their learning gains through undertaking an activity of their choice, e.g. research, work experience, volunteering.

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Employ.ed: An Inter(n)esting Summer

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Working within Information Services really opened my eyes to the huge amount of work that goes on behind the scenes, which as a student you never really think about. It was extremely interesting to get a glimpse into the work being done to help improve the student experience.