The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I know many people in professional services jobs at the university who have been off sick with stress. I have co-workers who are so snowed under with their workload that they’re afraid to strike lest they come back to an even larger mountain of work. Continue reading.

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Symplicity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The UK is facing a growing skills crisis that threatens economic growth, particularly as the country grapples with a shortage of skilled workers in critical sectors such as life sciences, engineering, and professional services.

Career Services 52

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 19, 2021

While valuable lessons remain to be learned about digital forms of education, it’s also important to reflect on how the pandemic has been seized by some organisations as an opportunity for HE reform.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Image credit: unsplash, @alexisrbrown,CC0 In this post, Dr Sarah Ivory from the Business School makes the case to potential students and their supporters that a university education is more than simply the accumulation of discipline-specific knowledge. This is a re-post of the original article published in June 2020, on the Hybrid Exchange.

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EAB

APRIL 24, 2023

65% of their students are first-generation, and 96% of recent graduates are employed or continuing their education. The Results With ongoing support from EAB’s professional services team, they saved hundreds of hours and expect to save even more in future cycles. It’s a whole team.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Heidi is a Lecturer in Outdoor Environmental Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport. Similarly, we would like to thank all staff involved (academic, professional services, sessional), the residential site and staff, George Gaff, who similarly ensured a COVID safe space. Feb 3, 2022

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

As John Warner has explained in Slate , this “crisis” of peer review is linked to a much bigger one—namely, the ever-deepening crisis in the humanities and higher education more broadly. Updates to the way we manage peer review cannot solve larger crises in higher education.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 7, 2019

Years later, after working in the youth justice and education sectors, I moved into a role within widening participation. Some of our most important work focuses on learners who have been in the care system, those who are estranged from their families, and those returning to education later in life. You can book on MyEd. May 7, 2019

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Although relatively new, the term digital citizenship has become increasingly prominent, especially within educational settings. As early as 2004, educators Mark Ribble, Gerald Bailey and Tweed Ross defined digital citizenship as, “the norms of appropriate and responsible behavior with regard to technology use” (p.7).

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

Each year, we have several categories celebrating these staff – from supervisors and cohort leads to the many professional services staff who keep things ticking along smoothly. Callum Paterson Callum Paterson is the Academic Engagement & Policy Coordinator within the Student Voice team at the Students’ Association. May 14, 2024

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JULY 4, 2023

Photo credit: Engin Akyurt, Unsplash , CC0 In this post, which kicks off a short series reflecting on Postgraduate Taught (PGT) programmes at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) , Kate Orton-Johnson, Director of Education in EFI, takes stock of EFI’s first year of delivering PGT courses, reflecting on the lessons learnt along the way.

Social Justice 52

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SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

But “it seems likely that the peculiar nature of higher education actively encourages particular kinds of bullying” ( Tight, 2023 , p123) and research continues to highlight that bullying in UK and international HE remains rife ( Tight, 2023 ). She is the editor of the Research into Higher Education Abstracts journal.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As James Arvanitakis and David J Hornsby (2016) define them in Universities, the Citizen Scholar and the Future of Higher Education , Citizen Scholars are students who apply discipline-specific knowledge in order to develop and support their community and wider society. Universities, the Citizen Scholar and the Future of Higher Education.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 27, 2020

When I first joined the clinical education team I had very little experience teaching online and I was very nervous about it. I wanted to know if others felt the same so, in 2012/13, I interviewed everyone teaching on the Clinical Education Masters at that time. Mar 27, 2020

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 6, 2023

The Panel was asked to feed into the development of a Digital Strategy together with members from administrative teams and professional services across the University.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 3, 2022

Staff play a pivotal role in the student experience at The University of Edinburgh, from Lecturers and Tutors to Supervisors, Personal Tutors and Professional Services staff. She is the staff support for academic representatives including Programme, School and College Representatives as well as the Vice President Education.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 8, 2019

However, I would consider several good examples from the Teaching Matters blog to be co-created, such as the Conservation Science course , Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World course, many examples of experiential education and place-based education , and creative learning and teaching with Lego. Bovill, C., & Felten, P.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 27, 2023

Amplifying our students’ voices is essential to create a more inclusive, effective and responsive educational system. By gathering and utilising student feedback, educators can tailor their teaching practices and learning environments to better meet the diverse needs of their students.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 4, 2020

The ‘Practice Worth Sharing’ (PWS) forum in the Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSES) aims to promote discussion and to share information about practice that has worked well for academic/professional services staff, as well as providing opportunities to take a ‘tricky issue’ for discussion. May 4, 2020

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 31, 2020

This duty involves both legal and moral obligations to internal (students, academic and professional services staff) and external (the general public) audiences through a variety of published material, including but not limited to physical and digital documents.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 13, 2021

Staff play a pivotal role in the student experience at the University of Edinburgh, from Lecturers and Tutors to Supervisors, Personal Tutors and Professional Services staff. She is the staff support for academic representatives including Programme, School and College Representatives as well as the Vice President Education.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 22, 2021

Dr Zayba Ghazali-Mohammed is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Digital Education, Dr Serdar Abaci is a Lecturer in Data and Digital Literacies, and Professor Judy Robertson is Chair in Digital Learning. Zayba Ghazali-Mohammed Dr Zayba Ghazali-Mohammed is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Digital Education.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 31, 2023

Stephen is a Tutor and 4th year PhD student in Moray House School of Education and Sport. In our role as teachers or professional service staff, how can we support students to reconcile such tensions and meaningfully contribute to sustainable development in their future workplaces and careers?

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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.

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Hanover Research

MARCH 31, 2023

A continuous improvement mindset and data literacy tools help educators make decisions that improve outcomes. Educator and author Peter Drucker once said, “ You can’t improve what you don’t measure.” K–12 districts are data-rich, but often have limited capacity to turn it into actionable information.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This post belongs to the Hot Topic theme: Critical insights into contemporary issues in Higher Education. This is especially true for international students, whose families have often invested significantly in their education expecting them to provide financial support to their families after graduation.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Next, Northampton’s IR and IE staff partnered with Edify’s professional services team to build exports in Edify that matched every form field and reporting requirement for both IPEDS and the Pennsylvania state reporting agency, PIMS. If done right, the three tips above will free up staff capacity.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

I talked to 13 staff participants across different schools and roles, including professional services and guest lecturers, to find out what value they saw in lecture recording. Unstructured interviews are essentially conversations with a purpose.

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 3, 2023

As an experiential educator, I love to have my students host and run their own community fundraisers. 11 Effective Self-Directed Student Fundraiser Project Ideas 1) Donors Choose: If you are an educator and you have not yet donated to a project on Donors Choose OR created a fundraising project of your own, you are truly missing out!

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 30, 2024

Catherine Bovill Professor Catherine Bovill is Co-Director, Institute for Academic Development and Professor of Student Engagement in Higher Education. She has published and presented internationally on student engagement and student-staff co-creation of curricula.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This post belongs to the Hot Topic theme: Critical insights into contemporary issues in Higher Education. This is especially true for international students, whose families have often invested significantly in their education expecting them to provide financial support to their families after graduation.

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EAB

MAY 22, 2023

Edify is EAB’s education data and analytics solution built for higher education. In addition to the technology, Edify partners can expand their team’s capacity using professional service hours which leverage EAB’s skills and expertise, like data science and data engineering.

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SRHE

JUNE 9, 2023

Some applicants find this process so challenging that they turn to a range of paid services that help them to learn how to contact a potential doctoral supervisor or develop a research proposal. James’ research interests include doctoral education and the academic profession, higher education internationalisation and academic mobilities.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Recent changes in the laws in many states have moved to a bifurcated system in which students must have 120 credit hours of college education to sit for the CPA exam and 150 credit hours (225 for quarter schools) to be licensed as a CPA. Expanding the Knowledge Base for CPAs. The AICPA was an early supporter of the 150-hour requirement.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 14, 2023

At the same time, much of the sector is seeing an increase in cases of academic misconduct, and colleagues report increasing concerns about whether students are ‘ready’ for learning in Higher Education. We didn’t, and neither will our own students. Let’s give them a chance to excel, and let them delight us with their thoughts. Mar 14, 2023

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 15, 2023

Support Staff of the Year This category recognises staff working in professional services who provided support to students, helped things run smoothly and efficiently (often behind the scenes) and signposted students to services and resources, so they could get the support they needed. Jun 15, 2023

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The benefit of the SRHE and its Blog has been in providing a sense of community for those who have to and do think about the purpose, the benefits and the travails of higher education. SRHE would then be reaching out to the field of the political economy of higher education and there is perhaps a dearth of such research.

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