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. Now multiply this across every task, experience and interaction a student has with the University during their lifetime with us.

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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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Parchment

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This gap makes it challenging for learners to showcase their capabilities, and, in turn, complicates employers’ efforts to find the talent they need — even when that talent is out there, waiting to be recognized.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Niamh Melvin, undergraduate student in English Literature, reflects on her Employ.ed internship at the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas, a University of Edinburgh involvement at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Niamh explores the processes of applying to and working at the internship, as well as developing a professional skill-set.

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University Business

MARCH 21, 2024

More from UB: 3 ways higher ed can modernize its payment strategies Conducting outreach so students, employers and institutions can all benefit Partnering with local corporations is a proven approach to making non-degree programs successful. Working with businesses looking to hire skilled employees is an essential part of that.

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University Business

APRIL 21, 2023

For example, The National Library of Medicine believes mental illness can affect students’ motivation, concentration and social interactions, and the Class of 2023 endured the pandemic’s impact throughout their four-year college careers. In fact, 65% say they more commonly need to fire GenZers than employees of other generations.

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Symplicity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Symplicity® Corporation, a global leader in student employability, student wellness and success, is proud to welcome the National College of Ireland (NCI) to its CSM network.

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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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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

JULY 14, 2022

The Role of Hybrid Learning Spaces in Enhancing Higher Education Students’ Employability.” This means that designers of courses that aspire to be hybrid/hyflex learning may be required to enable the same (or equivalent) learning experiences to be modelled in multiple forms or alternative spaces (Bennett et al., 2020; Goodyear, 2020).

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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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University Business

APRIL 7, 2023

After a $5 million investment and a decade of collaboration between the city, the county and local employers, Walla Walla opened more than 170 wineries and is now a tourist destination. The rural town leveraged its open space to create a booming industry and build student employment opportunities.

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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. Why did it make this suggestion? How did AI use impact the overall product?

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

AI has been used in the UK graduate recruitment market for over a decade yet currently remains in the minority, with only 10% of Institute for Student Employment (ISE) members saying they use it. They also found that students tried to use it too quickly which created poor outputs that were then easy to spot.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Image credit: Christina Morello Lucy Everett, Employer Engagement manager at the Careers Service, offers an overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has utterly transformed the relationship between students, employers, and careers services. Like all of us, students have loved and hated having so much content delivered online.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 15, 2023

I love that Hope provides flexible student employment opportunities for its students. Most of my friends and I have student jobs, which vary from tour guiding or overnight hosting to being a TA. From this experience, I would say that an on campus job can be both manageable and beneficial for students at Hope.

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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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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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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Because I spent so much time in higher education, and since then continue to be so closely linked, I can quickly understand the surrounding context when they are talking about students, employers, alumni, events… it’s like we can speak in shorthand and get right to the point more quickly.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Credit: pixabay, geralt, CC0 As part of its ambitious Vision 2025 strategy, the University of Edinburgh is committed to provide all students with an international experience. UoE Students: You can apply for NICE here and INCiTE here !

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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

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. Dora Handrea is a Lead Enterprise Executive at Edinburgh Innovations (EI)↗️, The University of Edinburgh.

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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.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The foundation of its commitment is to provide a modern, robust catalog of student success advisers and alumni engagement opportunities. Some programs were cut entirely, such as student employment for those who don’t demonstrate financial need through the FAFSA.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 10, 2018

CC0 [pixabay] When this is the first thing you say to a class of 200+ medical students, it raises a few eyebrows! When you say this to staff, it raises a few eyebrows with them as well… In the undergraduate medical curriculum, the Student Selected Components (SSCs) programme amounts to 15% of academic credit for the whole medicine programme.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 2, 2024

As the SACHA team supports 30+ such student groups each year, we have gathered lessons from our experiences and the different scenarios that we often see groups encounter during the programme. It is likely that each team member is an active participant, brings their own expertise to the table and has a clear role to play.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2017

Seconded to the Institute for Academic Development he is developing his interests in reflection, experiential learning, and student agency, to develop SLICCs institution-wide. It is for colleges, schools and programmes to utilise, link to and embed these skills and mindsets in teaching delivery and supervision.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

Students are provided with formative feedback on an ‘Interim Reflective Report’, where the students reflect on their learning and their progress towards achieving their personalised learning outcomes. SLICCs are developing momentum and becoming embedded within existing programmes of study.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this extra post, Patrick Pollock explores the practice of ‘crofting’, and its place in the current veterinary recruitment crisis. Patrick is Professor of Veterinary Surgery and Remote and Rural Medicine and Director of the Dick Vet Equine Hospital in Practice.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 22, 2024

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”. It began as an extra-curricular initiative run by the Student Enterprise Team and is now being embedded across core curriculum teaching at the request of academic staff.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

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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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We have had to quickly evolve the content, its assessment, and how it integrates with the wider programme content, to make it clearer to students WHY we are teaching it to them and how they will benefit in both the short- and longer-term. Now, this all seems reasonable. Watch out for them in the not-too-distant future!

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

One of us (Kieran) convenes the course; two of us (Sabrina and Joel) were among the students who took it in its first year (2016/17). Normally, those people are other political theorists but there is no reason why they should not be students. Students can offer a fresh take on old controversies.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 18, 2017

You might like to share these with your students, or use my advice to think about how you might help your students to think about their future careers. The University of Edinburgh has a set of graduate attributes that it believes its students will attain. You don’t have to have a ‘job’ in order to learn these skills.

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2024

First, it smooths new graduates’ transitions into the workforce, equipping them with skills that position them for employment and enable workplace advancement. Simply put, traditional education no longer aligns with economic realities. However, 21st-century disruptions demand reconciling these opposing worldviews.

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