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Global Challenges in Business Awards Ceremony Night: A first step to a bright future

Teaching Matters Academic Support

This year, I attended the GCB Awards Ceremony Night 2018, and would like to share everything about it, including students’ thoughts on how studying this course has impacted their lives. The event took place in the Playfair Library, one of the most beautiful locations in Edinburgh.

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Wherefore art thou…undergraduate education?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Global Challenges for Business Poster Presentation Award Night in the Playfair Library, Dr Sarah Ivory with winning students. She has been working at the University of Edinburgh for almost a decade, teaching MBA, Masters and Undergraduate students. Photo credit: Eoin Carey. Oct 11, 2018

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Data mindfulness: Teaching undergraduates data management skills

Teaching Matters Online Learning

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. Feb 18, 2020

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

In addition to the content from the subject-matter expertise and professional skills development sessions, the fellows also had access to EAB’s research library and experts, and they were paired with a partner to help develop ideas and get feedback along the way.

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Mini-series: Student subtitling project to improve accessibility of online media materials

Teaching Matters Online Learning

There’s a ton of reasons why I enjoyed the work I did, especially as a Masters student writing her dissertation towards the end of the semester. Dissertation work is often intensive and isolating; a type of work that is slow, that takes time and does not seem to cede any tangible progress despite the amount of research and effort involved.

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