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Co-creating a more sustainable framework for professional development for our UG students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Photo of PALS training day Back in January 2018, a group of staff and students in the Business School got their collective heads around the table to address the problem: ‘How can we get our UG students to engage more in their personal and professional development?’

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Reflection and metacognition for veterinary students

Teaching Matters Student Employment

They consider the ways in which the School understands this, detailing how its courses are already implementing reflectivity at various levels of learning and teaching, from course material to assessment to professional development. This post is part of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Series: Reflective Learning.

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Musical Pathways

Teaching Matters Student Employment

They brought together students, staff and external professionals and resulted in the creation of important new resources including updated, practical links to current services and freely available resources for music industry professional development. Her research examines communication in musical performance.

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A recap of the 2023-24 MIT Career Exploration Series

CAPD

The Career Exploration Series is an initiative led by Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) at MIT to promote career exploration throughout the fall and IAP for students and postdocs. The CAPD Employer Relations team worked with employers to organize career exploration events.

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Curriculum Mapping: Skills Matrices and Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

These matrices provide the cornerstone of the Business School’s MSc Edinburgh Award in Professional Development. The MSc Edinburgh Award in Professional Development now has 216 students actively participating, making it one of the most successful versions of the Award currently offered within the university.

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Risk it, you’re worth it!: A cabaret of careers at Employ.ed

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Workplace boundaries, managing up, and open feedback loops are often not something young graduates learn about until they have the privilege of working for a well-trained leader. Both skills I had been fortunate enough to practise at a student-led mental health charity the preceding year during term time. However, the Employ.ed

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Steps to success: Connecting careers to student support

Teaching Matters Student Employment

This is now available for staff and can typically be used in Semester 1: Step Forwards (for Masters students) [link] References O, Flavahan. link] Susan Bird Susan Bird is a Careers & Employability Manager, leading a team of Careers Consultants covering Chemistry, Geosciences, Informatics, Maths, and Engineering.