Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 9, 2019

Photo credit: Unsplash, Tim Gouw, CC0 In this post, Anais Banag, a fourth-year law student at Edinburgh Law School , shares her experience of being involved with ‘Access to the Professions’, a programme that provides secondary state school students with opportunities, encouragement and detailed advice about careers in law, medicine and veterinary medicine careers, as well as guidance on school course choices and the UCAS application process… When discussing widening participati

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Study Aborad Association

MAY 9, 2019

Studying abroad has been shown to give students invaluable learning opportunities that aren’t available in a traditional classroom setting. International education also opens doors to increasing cultural awareness and better career opportunities after graduation. In 2000, researchers assessed the impact of studying abroad on students across Georgia, and found that students had “ improved academic performance upon returning to their home campus, higher graduation rates, and improved knowledge of

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 8, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, rawpixel, CC0 This first post of the mini-series in ‘ P romoting inclusion, equality and diversity in the curriculum’ is written by Diva Mukherji, Vice President Education at Edinburgh University Students’ Association. Diva introduces the work of the University’s task group, which was set up to explore how diversifying the curriculum could be foregrounded as an institutional priority, rather than just a tick box exercise… Diversifying the curriculum

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Higher Ed Connects: News

MAY 7, 2019

by William Devine. As higher education’s basketball tournament for men unfolded in March, US District Court Judge Claudia Wilken ruled that the tournament’s revenue model is almost but not quite illegal. The revenue model’s injustice seems obvious. 1100 colleges and universities earn about $800 million per year in TV money from the tournament, yet they agree to pay no wages to players who play in it.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 7, 2019

Photo credit: Erika Stevenson In this post, Laura Cattell, Head of Widening Participation and Deputy Director of Student Recruitment and Admissions , introduces the University’s Widening Participation strategy, and explains how it is linked to the national, socio-political context… Volunteering as an undergraduate student in a low attaining school, I became aware of the barriers that educational and societal systems can have for individuals or groups of people.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 6, 2019

Photo credit: © Mihaela Bodlovic In this extra post, Teaching Matters is proud to highlight the fantastic work undertaken during the 2019 Festival of Creative Learning. Read more from Jennifer Williams, Festival Coordinator, below… The 2019 Festival of Creative Learning curated week in February was a roaring success, with over 100 events and more than 2000 tickets booked.

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Terminalfour

MAY 7, 2019

Many universities and colleges aren't using Reddit! It's not as easy to carve out your own corner on Reddit, but if you do the results can be incredible.

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