Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 18, 2017

As researchers, it’s important to share our findings with the public. The 3MT provides a unique opportunity for PhD students to showcase their research through a short, captivating pitch for a lay audience. You’re able to explain your research to anyone at any time. Would they understand this terminology?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. North Star Promise provides free college tuition to help make education after high school possible for more Minnesota students and families,” is written on the Minnesota Office of Higher Education website.

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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 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Tinto’s publications, you will find additional theories on student stop-outs and drop-outs. He indicates that when there are no check-ins and engagement between an institution and its students, students leave, and some never return. Compare Dr. Tinto’s research to the recently termed “great resignation”.

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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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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 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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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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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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University Business

APRIL 6, 2023

“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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SRHE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Based on findings from the project ‘Learning from Labour: Critical Pedagogy for Working Students’ carried out at Middlesex University in 2022-2023, the study explores the educational and employment challenges faced by working students in UK post-92 universities ( MDX News, 2023 ).

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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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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 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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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

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

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. She has 9 years’ experience contributing to the development and delivery of strategies that support students to flourish and enhance the student experience.

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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

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

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

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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CAPD

APRIL 29, 2024

As soon as students arrive on campus, they can begin booking appointments with anyone on our Career Advising team. Students can book appointments using Handshake. 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. It depends.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 22, 2024

I was filled with an optimism and belief that has continued to grow over the two years since we started researching this subject. I believe that there is a strong overlap between what we often call an “employability mindset” and something we refer to as an “entrepreneurial mindset”.

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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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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 5, 2023

EQUIS is a rigorous and comprehensive accreditation system that assesses the quality of an institution's management education, including its programs, faculty, research, and operations. What is EQUIS accreditation? What is EQUIS accreditation?

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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 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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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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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The CAA was established in response to the rapid growth of higher education in the UAE and the need for a regulatory body to ensure that students receive a high-quality educational experience. The CAA has also played a key role in promoting the UAE as a hub for education and research, attracting students and scholars from around the world.

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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

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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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. The organization was founded with the goal of improving the quality of business education and promoting excellence in teaching, research, and service. What is ACBSP?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

They progress to big picture thinking, drawing attention to the importance of a number of areas prominent in the wider Higher Education zeitgeist: student-owned spaces; citizenship; interdisciplinary research; forum; catalyst; community; and collaborative learning.

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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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