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 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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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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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There has been significant progress over the last few years, with both students and staff recognising the importance of this element of the university experience. The advent of the new student support model offered an opportunity to draw a clear link between the Careers Service and student support, making the implicit, explicit.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 20, 2023

Student success in higher education refers to students' achievement, growth, and overall well-being during their college or university experience. It entails providing a supportive environment that allows students to attain their full potential and prepares them for future success.

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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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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Photo credit: India Trek students Recently, Dr Winston Kwon wrote about a student engagement initiative , which involved two dozen students from multiple disciplines trekking across India.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2018

Our course – Contemporary Political Theory: Engaging in Current Research – is one of several courses at Edinburgh trying something different. 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). Students can offer a fresh take on old controversies.

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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. It’s also helpful to try to find out what each member of the group wants to get out of the experience. – Lesley Kelly 2. Think Positive!

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 30, 2018

My engagement practice provided me with many opportunities to observe researchers from different disciplines working together as a cohesive team to research some of the most urgent medical challenges of our time. They were led by our superb students from interdisciplinary subject areas across the University.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 16, 2019

For eight years in a row, around 80 per cent of students have told NUS that they want their institutions to be doing more on sustainability, and around 60 per cent of students want to learn more about it. Above all, we have been struck by the passion and the high level of importance students attach to sustainability issues.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

on Campus is a structured internship programme for undergraduate students in their 2nd, 3rd or penultimate year. I was the Digital Skills for Students Advisor for the Digital Skills and Training team within Information Services. At the end of my internship, I gave a presentation to other interns at the Employ.ed

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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 Student Employment

JANUARY 17, 2017

Elwira Danak, Learning and Development Advisor at the Edinburgh University Students Association shares her experiences working with student staff on the Edinburgh Award. Whatever the reasons, one thing that all students have in common now, as the graduation date looms, is the burning question: What next?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

These students have taken charge of their learning and are seeking to make a difference before they graduate and get their first full-time job. These student leaders and social entrepreneurs, those who took part in the SLICCs , and my nephew Raphy share something in common. Just under a year ago he started learning how to walk.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 2, 2019

Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies. But, to this day, I also remember the excitement of finding a pig’s tooth buried in the archaeology site we were allowed to ‘excavate’ It bought the learning in the classroom to life. Jul 2, 2019

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 9, 2017

The Edinburgh Award is an initiative that recognises students’ involvement with co- and extra-curricular activities while at University. It also seeks to enhance the learning and development opportunities these activities provide and encourage students to see the relevance of these activities in preparing them for their future.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 13, 2023

I believe that, as students, we need to gain an understanding of how knowledge is produced and distributed within academic institutions. Ada Bayramoglu Ada is a third-year undergraduate Sociology student from Istanbul, Turkey. It is usually not enough to passively consume the information that is given to us as part of our courses.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 18, 2020

A REMINDER ELIR is an external review of the quality of the student learning experience that we provide. It is important because it provides an opportunity for us to reflect on our approach to learning and teaching and the student learning experience. We welcome comments from students and staff on the draft RA.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 1, 2017

Teaching Matters is the University of Edinburgh’s website for debate about learning and teaching, for sharing ideas and approaches to teaching, and for showcasing our successes, including academic colleagues who are leading the way in delivering brilliant teaching. We also run an events listing page. The focus for March is Peer Learning.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

Of course I believed students were developing ‘transferable skills’, but I was largely concerned with the nitty-gritty of the immediate skills they had to develop to perform well in their assessments! I also now appreciate the importance of students engaging in thinking about their future careers as early as possible.

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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. Finding meaningful work experience can be difficult, and finding paid work experience even more so. I was happy to discover that the Employ.ed

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

7th September 2017) And… the number one read blog post was written by student (at time of writing), Karoline Nanfeldt, who captures the student voice in her summary of the effects of lecture capture on lecture attendance. Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

We are using the Student-Led, Individually-Created Course (SLICC) reflective e-portfolio for experiential learning as the learning and assessment framework, which is a piloted and supported initiative. Half-time: How has it been going so far?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

We introduced the UCVME in 2014 as we wanted to formally recognise the important role our students play in our teaching and learning processes. To get around my fears, I realised that using a more interactive lesson meant more freedom in what I was saying and kept students engaged.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

These are: Office, Lab, Student and the Student Residence awards. At the end of the Sustainability Awards, trained students have the opportunity to meet teams to review efforts made and give feedback on the team’s performance.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

. ‘ Students as Researchers ‘ is one such movement where the traditional teacher/student binary is disrupted, and undergraduate students are invited to research and contribute to the broader base of their discipline (Walkington, 2015). Nov 1, 2018

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The students were very positive in their feedback saying they enjoyed that they felt as if they worked on a project that can actually have an impact on society, that there was not a single solution to the project which allowed them to think creatively about different solutions and have intellectual debates amongst their groups.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 20, 2022

Image credit: Zoe Patterson In this post, Zoe Patterson explains how the Design Agency project for Graphic Design students not only survived the pandemic, but was enhanced in its move to an online format. Zoe is Graphic Design Programme Director at Edinburgh College of Art.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Photo credit: India Trek students Recently, Dr Winston Kwon wrote about a student engagement initiative , which involved two dozen students from multiple disciplines trekking across India.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 11, 2024

Foster: With SACHA it’s not all about what the university can give students through lectures and seminars but what the students can also give back to the university. It is a “give and take initiative” with the aim to involve students in the decision-making process in the University.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 22, 2020

The Making Transitions Personal (MTP) Pre-arrival and Start-of-year Reviews is an initiative that aims to support this through a set of targeted reflective questions given to students before the start of the academic year. We know from students that it is critical for their engagement with the review to be at least acknowledged.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The course aims to teach students how to tackle climate change through a greater understanding of not only the science but also the business and economic risks and opportunities. Another key feature of the course is the multi-national and cross-disciplinary make-up of the students, coming together from a range of backgrounds and cultures.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 27, 2019

Getting in contact with staff members, from employment managers to directors, heightened the blog’s visibility, and showcased an insider-take on the variety of internships offered by ISG. She is a fourth year student studying History of Art and English Literature. Another dimension of managing the blog came with promoting it.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 9, 2020

I’m hoping that the new ‘e-help’ and revamped sessions will support them, and I will learn something new from my diverse student body. I wonder why the students choose this Level 10 course. The student project and its legacy comprise the component with the greatest proportion of marks. Is it the unusual nature of it?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Ryan Gilmour Ryan Gilmour is an electrical engineering student in the School of Engineering, with a passion for renewable energy, teaching and developing solutions for the 1 billion people without electricity access. This usually involves the lovely realisation that STEM is everywhere and very relevant. And off she went.

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