Symplicity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

My day-to-day role was mostly focused on event management and other project management. I was on the administrative side mostly, and the attraction there was continuing to be part of an education community – access to the arts, speakers, and community enrichment events that come with being part of a vibrant university.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of student employability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.

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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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JULY 13, 2023

I knew that this experience would provide me with an understanding of the various transferable skills necessary to organise an event of this scale within The University of Edinburgh. I have always wanted to take part in an event where I could witness the production and exchange of information between scholars in a real-world setting.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MARCH 20, 2025

It was collaboratively agreed that the online resource needed to be accessible to both current students and graduates. Initially, this involved building a web/blog page where students and alumni could share their experiences, dissertation research, connected projects and events, etc.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 1, 2017

We also run an events listing page. Remember, you can also submit details about your event and we can advertise it on Teaching Matters. Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. The focus for March is Peer Learning. Mar 1, 2017

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JANUARY 4, 2017

We also run an events listing page. The focus for January is employability, introduced by the Director of the University’s Careers Service, Shelagh Green. Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month.

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MAY 1, 2018

Remember, you can also submit details about your event and we can advertise it on Teaching Matters. Happy reading! May 1, 2018

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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 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 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.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Festival of Creative Learning , now entering its second year, is a year-long series of events exploring creative learning and innovation at the University of Edinburgh. Your event may involve performing, painting, crafting, writing, dyeing, baking, playing, escaping, debating, combining these, or something else entirely.

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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 Student Employment

AUGUST 9, 2018

Why are we more comfortable with exploring new topics in public events then in teaching? This Edinburgh Fringe event is as an equal measure of light entertainment, knowledge dissemination and public discussion. From Space)” in 2016. These dynamic and engaging questions are being posed as part of “Is Astronaut Food the Future?”,

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AUGUST 1, 2016

My role so far has involved working on the postgraduate and doctoral research course brochures, collecting data for the Beltane Public Engagement Network team on their website and social media platforms, and helping out with events. I also enjoyed helping out with the 3 Minute Thesis competition.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Moreover, presentations are often one-off, high-stakes components of, for example, a final-year project, for which feedback, coming after the event, is useless. I redesigned the “skills” component (15%) of Honours Analysis, a 20-credit course for third-year mathematics students, to develop presentation skills.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 10, 2018

Once they got started, the students have ripped our hands off in taking this opportunity, being highly imaginative and creative – way beyond our expectations. Current areas of responsibility include: the Edinburgh Award, SLICCs (Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses), Making Transitions Personal and the Development Hub.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Final Event, detailing my developmental goals, as well as how they had progressed. I would thoroughly recommend doing this, as it really helped me to reflect on my development over the summer, and see how much I had improved. At the end of my internship, I gave a presentation to other interns at the Employ.ed So how did I spend my summer?

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MARCH 14, 2017

I call this an enabler event because it gets students to think about the importance of their health and wellbeing, using a range of fun recreational activities. Support services in the University also take part in this event. Any member of School staff can nominate a student and nominations can be made all year.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 9, 2019

Furthermore, the various events held by Access to the Professions , such as ‘So You Want to be a Lawyer?’, allowed me to have a better understanding of what would be desired of me as a law student. I met current students, other prospective students, practising solicitors, and advocates, and became familiar with the university.

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JULY 30, 2019

Following placements, I found it useful to have a group meeting with students to reflect on what worked well and what could be improved. Ultimately, each specific placement is different, and anybody coordinating a number of them will need to be nimble and able to react to events.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 2, 2017

We also run an events listing page. Future Teaching Matters themes include: Assessment and Feedback – June 2017 Student-led learning and teaching – July/August 2017 If you’d like to contribute a blog post, video, or other media on any upcoming themes or any teaching-related subject, let us know. The focus for May is the PhD experience.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This could be in 1-1 meetings, or through some of the events we set up. We invite former alumni too, bringing together various generations of students, to share questions and experiences. For example, in term 1, we organise a social when the previous cohort comes back to graduate.

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AIFS Abroad

MAY 17, 2021

Grenoble is for students: With over 65,000 university students and several prestigious universities, Grenoble is an ideal place to study abroad. The city is regularly voted most popular university town in France with so much to do for students– free museums, free events or ticket discounts, special offers for meals, movies, theater.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As part of this, MyDevelopmentHub was launched in 2017/18 and continues as an important online signposting tool for students interested in any aspect of their development – personal, professional, or academic – improving access to relevant activities, events, and resources.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

To add to the workload, we organised further events – seminars, lectures and, in one case, a book launch – around the visits. For starters, it involves a lot of admin: sending invitations, settling dates, booking hotels and cafes, and bugging guests to book their travel and send in papers on time.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Two of our AFHEA students from the 2018 cohort presented on their own approaches to teaching at the vet school’s Celebrating Teaching event (see picture below). Both presentations were professional and thought-provoking, and sat comfortably alongside talks by members of teaching staff.

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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. Accredited schools are also eligible to attend AMBA events, which provide networking opportunities and access to the latest industry insights.

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MAY 11, 2017

Places can be booked for the lunchtime launch event on the 21 st of June. From late May, discussion groups with postgraduate research students will be held across the institution. It will also provide a forum for supervisors to meet and share practice. Information can be found on the Programme webpages.

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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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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.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The tools devised included a light-up installation, Making up your Mind , which enables young people to build personalised brain maps to be discussed at careers events, and IDK (I Don’t Know) , a mid-term creative festival of talks and workshops supported by a website, information pack and Snapchat filter.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

By Gavin McCabe, University’s Employability Consultancy Omolabake Fakunle Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle is a MSc Educational Research graduate and current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Labake’s PhD research is exploring internationalisation of higher education and employability.

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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.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

We then also examined various iterations and developments through a simulation exercise to assess how the demand on these nurses changed throughout a procedure, and the skills they used to adapt to both these events in surgery as well.

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