Symplicity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Each and every day, our client managers across the globe help make our clients' day-to-day just a little bit easier so that they can better support their students. In our latest installment, we shine a spotlight on our beloved colleague and lead CSM client manager Rebecca Florey. What got you interested in higher education?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 20, 2017

Natalie Gilfedder Natalie Gilfedder is a final Year Business Management student. on Campus internship as an ‘Employability Projects Intern’, she became increasingly interested in the concept of graduate attributes, student employability and higher education. After her Employ.ed

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JULY 18, 2019

In this post, Lucy Everett, Employer Engagement Manager in the Careers Service, explains why p lacements and fieldwork are a great start to career exploration that will also be valued by future employers… The value of placements and fieldwork is fairly self-explanatory: both build work experience.

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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

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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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. How have these stakeholders responded to the rise of virtual recruitment?

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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. Business skills: Leadership, project management, strategic decision-making.

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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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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 9, 2024

Sophie is also an accomplished Waste Manager. She has project managed new waste strategies for the automotive industry, contracted and implemented waste management contracts for the University of Edinburgh, and benchmarked and conducted waste management gap analysis for many private and public organisations.

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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. The launch of ChatGPT has created a new buzz around the opportunities and challenges of using AI in recruitment, as it has in many sectors.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In this post, Professor Tina Harrison introduces the fifth draft chapter of the Reflective Analysis, ‘Collaborative Provision’, and outlines how staff and students can provide comments… WHAT IS CHAPTER 5 ABOUT? We welcome comments from staff, and in particular students, on the draft chapter. HOW CAN I COMMENT?

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SRHE

AUGUST 15, 2024

However, I believe that the use of a live brief should be the unrivalled method to enhancing students’ employability skills and prospects at university in comparison to these other approaches. Students are often asked to deliver a pitch to the client as part of their assessment with one of the ideas chosen by the client.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 2, 2024

Aidan Tracey Aidan is the Social Impact Manager for the University of Edinburgh based within the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Department. Prior to this he was Programme Manager for Students as Change Agents and has worked in sustainability for over 10 years. He has a degree in Geography and MRes in Human Geography.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This was a big step in students taking control of their own learning and project managing with many different stakeholders. Creative problem solving, risk taking, lateral thinking, communication, project management, amongst the many core design skills this student employed in order to fulfil this unique ‘task’.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. […]

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 10, 2018

This whole assessment process is simple to manage and assess, with only about 35 reports covering the whole class of 200+ students. However, it is important to manage student expectations – all our medical students are so familiar with getting individual marks which they have full control over, and they are also competitive.

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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. Some of the key benefits of the QAA approach include: Ensuring quality standards across UK higher education institutions.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

However, my line manager Andy Todd was always on hand to answer any questions I had, and the whole Digital Skills and Training team were really welcoming and friendly. As I was working on a separate, self-contained project, I did not have daily tasks given to me, but more of an overall expectation.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 17, 2017

In the search for answers, you may have come across such buzzwords as employability and transferable skills, and wonder what they mean. Additionally, they gain access to professional support and encouragement so they can reflect continuously on what they have learned and use their newly gained skills in their roles.

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SRHE

MARCH 1, 2024

Moreover, meaningful work experience or employment can be seen as critical for a number of professions – a mechanism to distinguish between graduates with the same 2:1 degree but with differing employability capital. To what extent is student employment detrimental?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

APRIL 11, 2017

Managing tutors and demonstrators on a large scale can be challenging, but also rewarding for both students and the School. The introduction of this process has ensured T&Ds are paid in a timely manner and has allowed management to have more control over the budget. Apr 11, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 9, 2019

These sessions tend to be rated highly by students. We managed to find a dynamic and engaging teacher to talk about the Forest Schools work he had done with his pupils. I have been drawing on the alumnae network to enhance our teaching on a range of programmes since I came to Moray House in 2010. One of these is on StoryLine.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 5, 2019

UEBS The Edinburgh Award in Professional Development Mapping the skills across a set of discrete MSc programmes could largely be delivered by partnership working between the Student Development team and the relevant Programme Directors. You can read the full PTAS report here.

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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. However, the Employ.ed

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 3, 2023

Supporting students to develop the tools to enhance their self-awareness in times of decision, transition, personal development and future planning is desirable, and something that universities, as the producers of graduates, cannot ignore. Alongside internship modules, we deliver a range of Career Management modules.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 5, 2023

EQUIS is a prestigious and rigorous accreditation system that assesses the quality of management education offered by higher education institutions. EQUIS Accreditation is a globally recognized mark of quality and excellence in management education offered by European higher education institutions. What is EQUIS accreditation?

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The question is how to measure and quantify—and ultimately justify and act upon—the value of non-STEM majors to students, employers, and the governments that fund much of higher education. Student perspectives can help change that. New tools. Supply chain’ visibility. But how do those who earned humanities majors fare over time?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 12, 2017

or 0131 651 5114 For other employer related enquiries: employers@ed.ac.uk or 0131 650 6688 Eilidh Steele Eilidh Steele is on secondment as the Internships Manager from her regular job as the Recruitment Coordinator at the Careers Service. Contact details: For internships: Internships Team, Employ.ed@ed.ac.uk

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 20, 2022

So too with students, whereby graduate attributes of networking, delegating, pitching, risk-taking were enhanced by the shared experience. Students also felt liberated to experiment with management roles, responsibilities, and presentation styles. This helped simplify and compartmentalise our communications.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

That is how I came across the MSc Carbon Management course at Edinburgh University. The Carbon Management syllabus is made up of three pillars: Science, Business and Economics. Without a doubt the interdisciplinary nature of the Carbon Management course opened the door to my current occupation. Oct 18, 2018

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2018

UoE contact: John Bennett , Go Abroad Projects Manager. She specialises in new forms of mobility, including virtual exchange, and is passionate about enhancing the student experience through the provision of holistic support including academic skills, social integration, culture shock, mental and emotional wellbeing, and employability.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

How are school teaching staff and resources supported and managed to enable interdisciplinary teaching to occur? How can use of these resources be recognised, managed and transferred to reflect the teaching delivery? Who ‘owns’ and is responsible for an interdisciplinary course or programme?

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

In essence, when looking at attributes students should develop while at university, for me, considering student destination is essential. May 22, 2018

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 11, 2023

The Process and Benefits of Engineers Australia Accreditation for Engineering Programs editor Tue, 04/11/2023 - 05:16 A quality education that equips Australian students with the challenges of the profession is crucial because engineering is a highly technical and complex field.

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2024

More from UB: Cultivating cannabis: Higher ed’s influence on a billion-dollar industry The value of professional certifications Offering credentials for real-world requirements like project management, data analytics, and software development certifications alongside traditional theoretical coverage delivers significant benefits.

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CAPD

JULY 11, 2024

The CAPD Employer Relations team worked with employers to organize career exploration events. As a part of the Employer Relations team’s events, 434 individual student-employer coffee chats were held with 29 employers during fall 2023 and IAP 2024.

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