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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

CC0 [Pixabay] For a number of years now, the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) has been working closely with the Careers Service to help address the question every arts and humanities students faces at some point in their career: ‘So your degree; what are you going to do with that? Do you want to become a teacher?’. 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

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What are Residential Curriculum Goals and Narratives and How to Write Them

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Goals and narratives are perhaps the least appreciated, understood, and often confused components of a residential curriculum. In reviewing the cascade of learning objectives in a curriculum, one starts with an educational priority. An educational priority is a broad summary statement of what students will learn as a result of their participation in the curriculum.

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What can you do about negativity on social media?

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How should your university react? It is not enough to have a customer service or public relations strategy in place.

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Developing Emotional Intelligence

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: EY This blog post is written by a Laura Sleigh, a 2008 graduate from the university. Laura works as a Student Attraction Advisor for EY, one of the global leaders in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, and the University of Edinburgh Business School. Laura outlines for Teaching Matters the importance of developing emotional intelligence for career success… The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently asked 350 HR leaders from the world’s biggest organisations which

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5 Signs Your Residential Curriculum is Actually a Programming Model with Learning Outcomes

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Curricular approaches are more than just writing and defining learning priorities, goals, outcomes. In many ways, implementing a curricular approach is as much about organizational change as it is about defining a structure. This is one of the reasons why Kerr, Tweedy, Edwards, and Kimmel (2017) call it a "paradigm shift." The word "paradigm" is most.

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