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How can our Graduate Attributes inform programme and course development? Challenges and opportunities

Teaching Matters Student Employment

However, what do they do when they look to develop students’ ‘mindsets’? What evidence do we have to show our students develop these graduate attributes? Perhaps the best is that our graduates are highly regarded and sought after by employers, and the continued successes of our alumni. communication, teamworking).

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As Scotland marks 20 years of its enhancement-led approach to quality in the higher education sector, I reflect on my involvement, particularly around work supporting student development, employability, and personal and professional success.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In the Business School, we recognised that we weren’t always making it easy for students to decipher where and how they were developing these skills, both in and beyond their taught curricula. This has been a helpful prompt to ensure skills and graduate attributes are reported upon, and robustly discussed, in course development.

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Mentoring groups for success – Top tips from SACHA coaches

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Finding out what subjects they study, where they are based, what their timetables are like and what their interests are can help to inform your approach to coaching. This provides information about motivations and expectations and can help coaches to adapt their approach to suit the group members. – Lesley Kelly 2.

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CoDI Show: Is astronaut food the future?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Satellites are also used to monitor (global) food production, but who owns and controls that data and what effects does that information have? If so, who is checking that the taste stays the same? These dynamic and engaging questions are being posed as part of “Is Astronaut Food the Future?”,

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Bridging the seminar room and the world of public policy: Six practical tips for organising work placements

Teaching Matters Student Employment

It is important for the student to have a grasp of what will be expected from them on the placement, and how the activities of the placement will align with and complement any attached academic work, such as a dissertation.

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Learning from each other: Adventures in student engagement with learning and teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

We are still developing the process, and will be working on informing students about the career options within HE and providing more support for their teaching, just as we would offer staff as part of their professional development, and our aim is to have the students involved in these decision processes where possible.