Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 18, 2019

This is essential to help students make more informed choices about the kind of work they will really enjoy, and also because employers really value that experience in their recruitment processes. So what is the value of work experience from an employer’s perspective? They also advertise around 10,000 vacancies annually.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Recognising this as a team of five postgraduate research students (PGR) representatives, we organised intellectually stimulating events focusing on the academic, social and wellbeing development of our diverse PGR learning community. We kicked off the year with an event titled, “PhD is a Rollercoaster”.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 31, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, annca, CC0 In this post, Ana Fialho, a PhD Physics student and PhD Horizons Careers Conference Intern, shares her views on an event that aims to show postgraduate students the career potential of holding a PhD degree… More than half of PhD graduates in the UK pursue a career outside of academia [1].

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 9, 2018

Why are we more comfortable with exploring new topics in public events then in teaching? Looking at food provisions in extreme environments, researchers and engineers have come up with some very interesting, but also controversial solutions, which are now making their way into mainstream food production. From Space)” in 2016.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Through three community-building workshops, the project generated opportunities for dialogue between current students, academic staff, University services and external professionals. The three events are documented in the project website. Her research examines communication in musical performance.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 1, 2016

It’s quite a strange experience being on the ‘other side’ of the university, acting as both an undergraduate student and a member of staff. Working with the Researcher Development team on projects geared towards tutoring and teaching makes you appreciate how much work your lecturers and tutors put into their jobs.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 2, 2017

We also run an events listing page. In the 20 th century, the PhD was essentially an academic apprenticeship based entirely on a supervised research project. There are currently more PhD students in the UK than at any time in the past. The focus for May is the PhD experience. LERU March 2010).

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 18, 2019

Josephine rose to this challenge and, following a short period of information gathering, she proposed and partially organised a yearlong programme of Let’s Gather events for students and staff. These events included monthly coffee and cake (with the wonderful Artisan Roast), Therapets, yoga and academic presentations.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Through the MSc Performance Psychology programme at the University of Edinburgh, I, along with my dissertation supervisor (Dr Amanda Martindale), was able to partner with the NHS to investigate this idea further, specifically with scrub nurse practitioners serving on organ retrieval teams for my dissertation research.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 11, 2017

In January 2017, the Senate Researcher Experience Committee (REC) approved a comprehensive programme of work designed to investigate, map and enhance the postgraduate research student experience. The Senate Researcher Experience Committee (REC) acts as the Programme board and the work is a standing item on the committee agenda.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

With very little experience of the Edinburgh Fringe festival as a 2019 fresher, I decided to apply for the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas internship, which required event promotion and social media management. Both skills I had been fortunate enough to practise at a student-led mental health charity the preceding year during term time.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This year, I attended the GCB Awards Ceremony Night 2018, and would like to share everything about it, including students’ thoughts on how studying this course has impacted their lives. The event took place in the Playfair Library, one of the most beautiful locations in Edinburgh. – Haoshen Sarah Ivory, you are amazing!

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Vet students work with a model of a dog’s head [Paul Dodds]. Some of the students also attend staff talks on educational topics, which they find helpful for their own teaching. Staff and student teachers from the 2018 cohort receiving recognition for their commitment to learning and teaching at the vet school.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 13, 2017

But, at a personal level, how does an international student perceive they develop their employability during a one-year Masters-level study in a UK university? This is the title of my PhD research. However, this blog post is a reflexive piece about developing my employability during my Masters programme. Jan 13, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Final Event, detailing my developmental goals, as well as how they had progressed. Working within Information Services really opened my eyes to the huge amount of work that goes on behind the scenes, which as a student you never really think about. Throughout the summer, I was able to conduct my research in various ways.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A flourishing field of student partnership work has recently emerged (e.g., Cook-Sather, Bovill and Felten, 2014), which critically discusses and reflects on how universities can involve students in roles that, ‘actively shape and enhance their experiences of learning and teaching’ (Healey, Flint and Harrington, 2014). Harrington.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A student in Singapore described local students as being reluctant to include exchange students in group projects, assuming they would not contribute as much effort. Her research interests are centred aroundrefugee studies and the decolonisation of humanitarian aid. Dec 10, 2024

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

They are useful as a tool of reflection during the placement but many students return to them when writing their dissertations, to remind themselves how their research design evolved. Following placements, I found it useful to have a group meeting with students to reflect on what worked well and what could be improved.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2018

sarcastically] Well, over a four-year PhD, we deliver a year’s worth of training in innovation and entrepreneurship in parallel to the students’ research projects. All students carry out an interdisciplinary project between supervisors in physical sciences and biomedical/clinical sciences.

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CAPD

APRIL 29, 2024

How is the connection between current students and alumni? Do alumni easily offer internships or other opportunities to current students? There is a very strong alumni network at MIT, and there are a number of events and opportunities happening on campus throughout the year for students to connect with alumni. It depends.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Over the last 20 years as the Programme Director of Graphic Design within Edinburgh College of Art’s (ECA) Design School I have been accustomed to teaching a wide range of students with diverse backgrounds from across the UK. Since that time she has maintained her professional practice and developed her research in the field of education.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 24, 2023

Accreditation by AMBA serves as an assurance to students, employers, and other stakeholders that a business school's MBA program meets the highest standards of excellence in business education. The role of AMBA accreditation in accrediting business schools is to provide a mark of quality and excellence for MBA programs worldwide.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

In 2016/17, Focus On took the postgraduate research (PGR) student experience as its theme, an important aspect of which was postgraduates who teach. Omolabake Fakunle Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle is a MSc Educational Research graduate and current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Aug 10, 2017

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EAB

APRIL 26, 2023

So, if they have to cover an extra shift at work or their car breaks down, students can stay on pace with the rest of their class. Provide curricular flexibility Today’s college students need flexibility. A single event can derail their best efforts in the classroom.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 9, 2019

A series of events will be held to orient students to the perspectives of community groups and organisations with an interest in the canal’s development. These stakeholders will act as clients to the students, assisting students in honing in on particular sites along the canal.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

However, common measures and indicators of student success in higher education typically include the following: Academic Achievement Academic success is often a central component of student success. Career Outcomes The transition to the workforce or further education is an essential aspect of student success.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

With enrollment numbers dropping and student demographics evolving, corporate partnerships offer an opportunity to align academic programs with workforce needs , creating a win-win-win scenario for students, employers, and universities. A lot of times we see there’s life-changing events or death in the family.

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