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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. This aligned with our work harnessing co- and extra-curricular learning to support studentsdevelopment and impact.

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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. Rosalyn Claase Ros is Head of Student Experience, having joined the Business School in November 2011 as the Careers Manager.

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Welcome to the January issue of Teaching Matters!

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The focus for January is employability, introduced by the Director of the University’s Careers Service, Shelagh Green. While I wouldn’t argue for employment outcomes as a simple proxy for teaching quality, I would argue that the learning and teaching experience of our students has the capacity to open up a world of career opportunities.

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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

Build a network Mostly relevant for those charged with organising multiple placements it is crucial to build up a network of contacts in the relevant ‘world’ in to which you are seeking to place students. Placing students in appropriate and rewarding placements is only possible through clear communication.

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Development of graduate attributes in online distance learning students

Teaching Matters Student Employment

iStock [BrianAJackson] Several previous posts on Teaching Matters have focused on graduate attributes – the skills, abilities, attitudes and approaches that students develop “through meaningful experiences and the processes of learning and reflection” (from Definition: what are Graduate Attributes? ).

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Reflections of an Edinburgh Award tutor

Teaching Matters Student Employment

It has been wonderful to see students develop during their participation in the award, not all staff get to witness this change at such close quarters – almost in real time. The developing conversations and discussions that we have are as rich and as enlightening as you might imagine they would be. The certificate?

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Developing graduate attributes in a landscape of practices

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Reaching such an understanding involves identifying the factors which enable, but also constrain, studentsdevelopment of these attributes. For this particular group, it became clear that developing intended attributes was linked to, but also sometimes hampered by, their membership of multiple communities here and at home.