Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 4, 2017

Being a student at the University of Edinburgh is also a process of ‘becoming’ – becoming an Edinburgh Graduate – a process owned by each student and supported by all of us in the University. For example, think about the last task you gave to a student, directly or indirectly, academic or non-academic, practical or conceptual.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A couple of webinars and applications led me to realise that this programme is highly competitive as it offers something I think most students would massively benefit from: the opportunity to experience a snippet of professional life in a highly protected and supportive environment. Joining the Employ.ed

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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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University Business

JULY 2, 2024

Educators on the cutting edge of generative AI and its application in the classroom are discovering fascinating new ways to assess learning, uprooting centuries-old reading- and writing-based assessments as more and more students employ ChatGPT and related tools. Researchers at the University of Reading in the U.K.

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“Tenure is the primary means of protecting academic freedom and exists not only to protect individual faculty members but also to benefit students and serve the common good by ensuring the quality of teaching and research in higher education,” wrote AAUP in the report. Full-time faculty on track for tenure also fell 5%.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 23, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, geralt, CC0 In this mini-series post , Kerry Cheek, gives insight into how her module in Case Studies in Sustainable Development helped improve student employability… ‘Sustainable development’ is a broad term, especially to an Environmental Sustainability Masters student.

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SRHE

MARCH 1, 2024

Students undertaking part-time employment, during term or during vacation periods, is not new; in fact, it has long been encouraged by careers teams to facilitate the formation of soft-skills, broaden CVs, and boost chances for graduate success in the job market. To what extent is student employment detrimental?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I was motivated not only to gain professional accreditation via a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, but also to reflect on my teaching practice and pedagogical approaches within the context of my new role that involved designing and delivering training for postgraduate researchers and research staff across career stages.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

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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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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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Photo credit: Unsplash CC0 In this post, Mathew Brook makes a compelling case for teaching students to translate their research into entrepreneurial project in preparing them for the competitive world of biomedical science.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 26, 2023

For many students – particularly mature students – MSc study is the chance to start exploring something new and fascinating, generating multiple research questions. How does a student, thirsty for knowledge in a subject area they have become passionate about, progress?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

In comparison, the challenges for conducting interdisciplinary research seem to be at a lower level, for instance with the funding of a research grant, or as a student project – they are discrete and have clearly defined objectives. Furthermore, those resources of money and researchers, act as great enablers.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 9, 2018

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. What priorities does nutrition research put first, and is “tastiness” one of them? How does that look like?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 10, 2022

Graduate attribute frameworks have long been part of the conversation in HE as universities endeavour to prepare students for the supercomplex future they face (Barnett, 2000). The research participants were from the MSc Language Education programme.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 1, 2016

on Campus internships offer both, and the accessibility of the scheme is one of its major benefits, allowing students to support themselves during their work. 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.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 29, 2018

The first phase of the primary research involved a series of focus groups held with students (drawn largely from Edinburgh College of Art), supplemented by contextual interviews with relevant professionals and key university staff.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 17, 2018

Since then, in close cooperation with the Careers Service, we have been rolling out a School-wide project to situate careers and employability alongside our firm commitment to academic rigour. Internship Programme , and projects working with and inside secondary schools (e.g.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

With this in mind, we planned to employ a PhD student to carry out the project and were pleased to be able to recruit Candela Sanchez, a current PhD student in the School of Health in Social Science , who demonstrated a keen interest and enthusiasm for the topic of RDM.

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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 Student Employment

JUNE 19, 2018

This method of teaching merely encourages students to simply remember the information being delivered, as opposed to thinking about it in any detail. As students move along the trajectory from novice to expert, far more is required of them than simply accumulating a vast mass of knowledge.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 24, 2019

This means that in addition to carrying out research into how best to promote learner wellbeing, I help student teachers develop understanding of the components of positive mental health promotion, looking at theory and how it is enacted in a range of different school contexts. It is holistic and context driven. Jul 24, 2019

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 13, 2023

I was immediately interested because this year’s Conference, titled, ‘Investigate, inquire, innovate: exploring research-informed teaching practice’ aimed to celebrate diverse learning and teaching practices by adopting the lens of SoTL (Scholarship of Learning and Teaching). We also experienced a major internet outage on the first day.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 3, 2023

Employability is not just the job of a Careers Service. Self-awareness: The development of students’ self-awareness is at the very foundation of many of the initiatives outlined in this blog series. Helen mentions “Opportunity Stacking” and “Time to engage” in relation to inequalities in accessing employability enhancing activities.

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Creatrix Campus

MARCH 9, 2023

Collaboration : The QAA works collaboratively with higher education institutions, students, employers, and other stakeholders to promote and enhance the quality of higher education. In this blog post, we will delve into the QAA approach to higher education quality assurance, discussing its history, objectives, principles, and benefits.

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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. Her research examines communication in musical performance.

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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. Drumm McNaughton: Well, it’s interesting you bring up Tutor.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Schools today vying to win applicants over must toe the line between investing in top-notch student support programs and keeping their degrees affordable all while sustaining long-term economic health. The foundation of its commitment is to provide a modern, robust catalog of student success advisers and alumni engagement opportunities.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In this post, Dr Sarah Ivory, a lecturer in the Business School, reflects on why an interdisciplinary course is so important to prepare undergraduate business students for professional employment in an uncertain world… If you ask academics ‘ what is the purpose of undergraduate education ?’,

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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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SRHE

AUGUST 15, 2024

Done right I passionately believe that live briefs, with their ability to test students through an authentic task, develop creative problem-solving skills, and in turn, enhancing student satisfaction, are a valuable tool. Ranked based on perceived equity and employability status. The same clients often come back year after year.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 2, 2017

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. Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month. LERU March 2010).

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 25, 2017

It may seem counterintuitive to add to the significant task of writing a thesis with more writing, particularly when the blogging style is so different, but I hope here to convince you of the benefits for PhD students. Obviously during a PhD, as with any research, there will be restrictions about what can be openly shared.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) offer another approach and way forward. This is a reflective framework for experiential learning, where students consider their learning gains through undertaking an activity of their choice, e.g. research, work experience, volunteering. But how can this integration be achieved?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It is thus essential that we prepare our students not only for this aspect within our curriculum, but also to benefit our graduates in their ongoing professional lives. Her research is currently mainly focussed on veterinary education including assessment and feedback, curriculum development, student wellbeing and transitions.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this post, Kit Daniel Searle, University Teacher in Operational Research (OR) at the School of Mathematics shares their experience embedding a low-risk consultancy project within their course curriculum highlighting the perks of student-industry collaboration. Do industry collaborative projects enhance students’ learning?,

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 27, 2018

The student cohort is large and diverse with students at all stages of career planning. A key challenge is meeting the needs of students and getting them to see the course as relevant to them, rather than just “going through the motions”. So what was the result?

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