Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 31, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, Pexels, CC0 In this mental health and wellbeing mini-series post, Dr Sue Fletcher-Watson and Dr Natalie Jenkins, from Edinburgh Medical School, discuss how autistic students’ wellbeing is being supported at The University of Edinburgh… There are 150 students at University of Edinburgh who have disclosed an autism diagnosis, but since autism occurs in 1% of the UK population, the true number should be at least 300.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Elizabeth Jamieson, CC0 In this post, Dr Daniel Kenealy, a Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Science, presents his six top tips for organising student work placements One of my most challenging but rewarding tasks has been the development of around eighty ‘Capstone’ placements for postgraduate students enrolled on a Master of Public Policy programme.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 30, 2019

A 4th year Cyprus Field Trip. Photo credit: Louis Kinnear. In this post, Dr Gillian McCay, assistant curator of the Cockburn Geological Museum, reflects on the transformative experience of fieldwork for Earth Science students… If you ask a group of Earth Scientists what a liminal experience is, I can safely say that most of them will look at you like you have just spoken in dolphin whistles and clicks… But what most people don’t appreciate is that liminality is in fact a concept that is ce

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Terminalfour

JULY 29, 2019

This week we trawled the websites of almost every university in the UK to find the emerging trends, new features and best campaigns in clearing 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 29, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, geralt, CC0 In this extra post, Professor Tina Harrison, Assistant Principal Academic Standards and Quality Assurance and Professor of Financial Services Marketing and Consumption , and Nichola Kett, Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement Team in Academic Services , explain the importance of mid-course feedback for both staff and students, and present findings from a recent evaluation to determine the effectiveness of mid-course feedback across the University, as well

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 31, 2019

How to Prevent Accreditation Issues Due to Governance Failures is a case study demonstrating governance failure's role in accreditation crisis.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 30, 2019

Visit to Bramham Park, October of 2018, Photo by: Anna Rhodes In this post, Dr Francisca Lima, a landscape designer and a lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, reflects on the process of un-silencing during fieldtrips… I am usually faced with long periods of silence during a fieldtrip with the first-year students of Landscape Architecture to emblematic English gardens like Stowe, Rousham, Bramham, Hidcote, or Chatsworth.

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