Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This post belongs to the Hot topic series: Student Partnership Agreement 2023. In the case of Music, though, students usually identify very strongly with their specialism and expect it to remain central to their lives. Through this and the subsequent workshops I gained valuable insight into the music industry.

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2024

However, forward-thinking institutions can boost graduate employability and underscore their contemporary worth by embedding industry-recognized professional certifications within their curricula. While technology disrupts industries everywhere and enables universities to remake undergraduate preparation.

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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? Importantly these are all paid.

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CAPD

JULY 11, 2024

The CAPD Employer Relations team worked with employers to organize career exploration events. As a part of the Employer Relations team’s events, 434 individual student-employer coffee chats were held with 29 employers during fall 2023 and IAP 2024.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 24, 2018

Audiences can be wayward and fickle, critics can instil terror, the manual labour involved can be protracted and arduous, the use of emergent technology can engender a fear of not being quite current enough, and the perceived value of the creative industries at a governmental and societal level is often contested.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 9, 2018

As a bit of background, my research relates to the emergence of Space Industry in Scotland which I am examining from organisational, network development and policy angles. Yes, I am quite well aware of the Space Industry and Space Science. But fears can be overcome.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 25, 2023

The choice-based credit system (CBCS) emerges as a revolutionary solution, offering a flexible and student-centered approach to learning. The Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS) is an educational system that offers students greater freedom in choosing their courses. What is a Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS)?

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SRHE

AUGUST 15, 2024

by Lucy Cokes ‘Live briefs’ are used in Higher Education programmes, and I suggest that they can help promote equity and employability if they are used in very specific ways. The use of live briefs takes place not only in the creative industries, but also across more practical or core subjects in HE.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 31, 2023

Like many students studying at The University of Edinburgh today, it is quite probable this was the case for you too. Yet, it is not always clear for students how they can contribute to society and sustainable development ( e.g., the 17 SDGs ) through their future careers.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

What better way for my final year students, products of the successful peer intensive curriculum, to test their skills outside of the University setting. This was a big step in students taking control of their own learning and project managing with many different stakeholders. For most it was a bumpy ride.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 4, 2019

Photo credit: thebostonpilot.com, CC0 In this post, Dr Sergei Plekhanov, a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Economics, highlights a sponsored dissertation scheme, which connects undergraduate economic students with organisations who need real-life problems researched… Do you remember you first big piece of individual work?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This month, Niamh Mundy, a Product Design student at Edinburgh College of Art who took part in the India trek, reflects on her experience of exploring the production of sustainable cotton… Cotton is one of the most widely used materials in the fashion industry, yet it remains one of the most environmentally damaging natural fabrics.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In this post, Dora celebrates the University’s success in nurturing student start-ups, and underscores its dedication to fostering entrepreneurship by embedding enterprise within the curriculum. I am a firm believer that enterprise creates the means for our students to achieve excellence through ambitious and bold actions.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 9, 2024

Go into meetings with an open mind and engage with students’ ideas from a place of possibility, rather than immediately focusing on potential alternatives or pitfalls. It’s also helpful to try to find out what each member of the group wants to get out of the experience. – Lesley Kelly 2. Think Positive! – Valerie McIntosh 7.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 1, 2018

I mentioned earlier the vagaries of the labour market and the need to prepare our students for a constantly changing employment landscape – the learning and teaching environment we provide is central to this. If you would like to explore this further, please do contact me – I’d love to hear what it means to you.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 11, 2023

The Process and Benefits of Engineers Australia Accreditation for Engineering Programs editor Tue, 04/11/2023 - 05:16 A quality education that equips Australian students with the challenges of the profession is crucial because engineering is a highly technical and complex field.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Universities must bridge this gap by aligning their curricula with real-world skills and by forging stronger connections with industry to ensure that their graduates are job-ready. The employment numbers do not lie. One University that is a leader in this respect is Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

‘Over our dead bodies’ was the response I got when proposing to my final year undergrad Graphic Design students that we phase out the Design Agency scheme. Design Agency allows students on the Graphic Design programme to graduate with four years of full-time education with an honours degree and, simultaneously, four years of work experience.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This month, Niamh Mundy, a Product Design student at Edinburgh College of Art who took part in the India trek, reflects on her experience of exploring the production of sustainable cotton… Cotton is one of the most widely used materials in the fashion industry, yet it remains one of the most environmentally damaging natural fabrics.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 4, 2023

It provides a level of assurance to students, employers, and other stakeholders that the institution meets certain standards for quality and effectiveness. ACBSP accreditation is widely recognized by employers, students, and other stakeholders as a mark of quality and excellence in business education. What is ACBSP?

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The question is how to measure and quantify—and ultimately justify and act upon—the value of non-STEM majors to students, employers, and the governments that fund much of higher education. Today, that visibility is largely lacking, and to the detriment of students, institutions, businesses, governments, and society at large.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 24, 2023

Business education accreditation is crucial at the global level as it ensures that institutions offering business education programs are maintaining high academic standards, delivering relevant and innovative curricula, and providing resources and opportunities that enable students to succeed in their careers. What is AMBA? What is AMBA?

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CAPD

APRIL 29, 2024

As soon as students arrive on campus, they can begin booking appointments with anyone on our Career Advising team. As soon as students arrive on campus they can book an appointment using Handshake to meet with a career advisor and work on their resume. In the meantime, we encourage incoming students to review our resume resources.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Given these sessions are only available to 4 th year students, the current sign-ups alone represent a sizable proportion of the entire cohort. Coaching is used widely in industry for companies to get the most out of their employees. Secondly, it supports academic personal tutors in the pastoral care of students.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The University of Edinburgh’s team, aptly named CreatEd, pitched the idea of an Edinburgh-themed colouring book (“Edinburgh in Colour”), in order to capitalize on the meteoric rise of the adult colouring-book industry, pioneered by Edinburgh’s-own, Johnna Basford. This is where Dragons’ Glen really comes into its own.

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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. It all started with me wondering where all the Middlesborough boys had gone.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 27, 2023

These institutions are dedicated to providing students with quality business education that prepares them for the demands of the global marketplace. We will delve into the benefits of IACBE accreditation, the criteria for accreditation, and the impact it has on students, faculty, and institutions.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2018

We should be training all of our students to excel in their chosen career, have a greater awareness of what that career could be, and put them in the position to proactively define their career after graduation. He has worked in industry and academia and works at the interface between chemistry and biomedicine.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 25, 2019

We had some pretty famous professors there, and the idea that they could do top research AND share it with us students was particularly attractive. The students we teach in Earth Sciences and Physical Geography today will build infrastructure, look for resources, solve environmental problems and potentially govern us in the future.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

Moreover, several our students take work-based dissertation options for their Master’s thesis or volunteer to work in NGO or on other non-profit causes. This is supported by international studies of the need for higher education environment to do more applied “living curriculum” (Bath, et al.,

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 5, 2023

It evaluates an institution's performance against international standards and benchmarks, including leadership, governance, student services, faculty qualifications, research output, internationalization, and corporate connections. What is EQUIS accreditation? What is EQUIS accreditation?

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Student success in higher education refers to students' achievement, growth, and overall well-being during their college or university experience. It entails providing a supportive environment that allows students to attain their full potential and prepares them for future success.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D.,

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 3, 2018

CC0 [pixabay] Deborah Fowlis, Careers Consultant, shares with Teaching Matters how interactive workshops with chemical industry experts has helped Chemistry students prepare for the workplace… Many Chemistry students are keen to use their degree knowledge directly in a graduate job.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The study further reveals a concerning lack of awareness among students regarding their employment rights, including benefits like maternity leave. Mooney (2016), for example, criticizes the fact that hospitality management takes a ‘dispassionate’ attitude toward casually employed students, failing retention.

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