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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. “One Of them, 2,718 were first-generation college students.

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Collegiate Commentary: Five lessons from the 2022 Careers and Employability Series

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Self-awareness: The development of students’ self-awareness is at the very foundation of many of the initiatives outlined in this blog series. Planning and managing one’s career is a skill in itself, and Sharon’s blog post illustrates how student’s need support and reassurance as they develop their self-awareness.

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‘So your degree; what are you going to do with that? Do you want to become a teacher?’: Employability in HCA

Teaching Matters Student Employment

We are keen to highlight the employability of our students, while at the same time addressing the graduate outcome challenge that we face: how to ensure our students fulfil their career potential. Better articulate to students how HCA courses help develop skills for future careers.

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As Scotland marks 20 years of its enhancement-led approach to quality in the higher education sector, I reflect on my involvement, particularly around work supporting student development, employability, and personal and professional success.

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Collegiate commentary: Five take-aways from 'Embedding Enterprise in the Curriculum' series

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this commentary, Professor Ross Tuffee discusses the importance of developing “un-employability skills” in student cohorts. Whatever a student’s destination, the development of an entrepreneurial mindset will positively contribute to their career development.

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What is a crofter, and why our staff and students should know…

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The Highland and Islands Veterinary Services Scheme (HIVSS), funded by the Scottish Government, ensures the provision of an adequate veterinary service to prevent and eradicate animal diseases for all animals kept for agricultural purposes and belonging to crofters and others of like economic status. Oct 10, 2022

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New evidence on the challenges and consequences of precarious work for university students

SRHE

Headline news has reignited debates about how financial hardship and challenging labour market conditions are squeezing students’ study-life balance, and alarmingly raised claims that part-time jobs may disproportionally disadvantage less privileged students ( BBC News 2023 ).