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. Researchers at the University of Reading in the U.K.

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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? Her research is in the area of inequality and education.

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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? They also advertise around 10,000 vacancies annually.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability, we collaborate with researchers and students across the University, and partner with the Edinburgh Living Lab. Students work over 11 weeks to research the problem and come up with solutions, liaising with the department to ensure the context has been fully understood.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The top through groups after their successful presentations with industry partner, Sopria Steri. I am the course organiser for a SCQF 11 course called Methodology, Modelling and Consultancy Skills which is taught as part of the Operational Research MSc programme at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Mathematics.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Vet students work with a model of a dog’s head [Paul Dodds]. We offer up to 6 spaces within each cohort, and the students selected are ones who show a keen interest in working in Higher Education in the future. As well as their Peer Assisted Learning activities, the students attend and present at staff educational journal clubs.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Photo credit: Unsplash CC0 In this post, Mathew Brook makes a compelling case for teaching students to translate their research into entrepreneurial project in preparing them for the competitive world of biomedical science.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 13, 2017

But, at a personal level, how does an international student perceive they develop their employability during a one-year Masters-level study in a UK university? This is the title of my PhD research. However, this blog post is a reflexive piece about developing my employability during my Masters programme. Jan 13, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Global Challenges for Business Poster Presentation Award Night in the Playfair Library, Dr Sarah Ivory with winning students. – Anonymous student post-course feedback (2017-18) However, crucially, my course also teaches students three specific skills informed by a critical thinking lens, which are transdisciplinary.

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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. Ranked based on perceived equity and employability status. The same clients often come back year after year.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Presentation practice! on Campus is a structured internship programme for undergraduate students in their 2nd, 3rd or penultimate year. At the end of my internship, I gave a presentation to other interns at the Employ.ed Throughout the summer, I was able to conduct my research in various ways. on Campus 2018 programme.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Recognising this as a team of five postgraduate research students (PGR) representatives, we organised intellectually stimulating events focusing on the academic, social and wellbeing development of our diverse PGR learning community. Her research involves the child and adolescent development and mental health across cultures.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 25, 2017

Photo by Noesis at Morguefile.com If we were to start a game of word association with “writing” and “PhD”, you’d probably come up with “thesis” pretty quickly, whilst perhaps not considering the more fluid and informal options presented by blogging. Even during a PhD, perfection isn’t expected for everything.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A flourishing field of student partnership work has recently emerged (e.g., Cook-Sather, Bovill and Felten, 2014), which critically discusses and reflects on how universities can involve students in roles that, ‘actively shape and enhance their experiences of learning and teaching’ (Healey, Flint and Harrington, 2014). Harrington.

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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. More recently ,we have had online presentations and visual walk-throughs.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Based on findings from the project ‘Learning from Labour: Critical Pedagogy for Working Students’ carried out at Middlesex University in 2022-2023, the study explores the educational and employment challenges faced by working students in UK post-92 universities ( MDX News, 2023 ).

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

However, is there a challenge presented by the modular structure of programmes? Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) offer another approach and way forward. How can developmental progression in skills, but particularly mindsets, be assessed robustly? Gavin co-leads the development of SLICCs institution-wide with Simon.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, shilmar, CC0 The Edinburgh Living Lab programme is part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute, (EFI), which is building links between the university and the city to facilitate long-term multi-disciplinary ‘research in the wild’. Students have more direct access to the messiness of the problem though the external stakeholders.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 10, 2017

In 2016/17, Focus On took the postgraduate research (PGR) student experience as its theme, an important aspect of which was postgraduates who teach. Omolabake Fakunle Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle is a MSc Educational Research graduate and current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Aug 10, 2017

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 27, 2017

An epitome of skill application was in an Engineering workshop; we were instructed to research in groups and present the findings both on paper and visually. Relating Inside and Outside Class… The possibility of connecting the ‘dots’ of experiences within the University’s environment fascinates me.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 22, 2024

I was filled with an optimism and belief that has continued to grow over the two years since we started researching this subject. Enterprise in the curriculum therefore presents us with the opportunity to enhance the student experience and potentially address some of the issues we have inherited post-Pandemic.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

20 or students designed their own 10 credit courses over the summer ranging from research projects that explored degree-related topics more deeply to projects for volunteering or during summer internships. When given the freedom to design their own learning, these students certainly didn’t take the easy option.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 9, 2019

Students learn about this approach in taught sessions and are then joined by former students who share their experiences and advice on how they have managed to put the approach into practice. Jul 9, 2019

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 6, 2018

University of Edinburgh’s Playfair Library, Old College Later in the evening, Dr Sarah Ivory (course organiser) presented awards to students who had greatly contributed to the poster project. Each of these students was called up on the stage, and had their honorary moment.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

It is useful to have students write fortnightly reflective diaries during their placements. They are useful as a tool of reflection during the placement but many students return to them when writing their dissertations, to remind themselves how their research design evolved.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

and includes a video of their presentation at McEwan Hall. They progress to big picture thinking, drawing attention to the importance of a number of areas prominent in the wider Higher Education zeitgeist: student-owned spaces; citizenship; interdisciplinary research; forum; catalyst; community; and collaborative learning.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, intographics, CC0 At the University’s Learning and Teaching Conference in June, Jean O’Donoghue and Colin Campbell (School of Chemistry) and Fumi Kitagawa (Edinburgh Business School), presented a ‘Did you know?’ Oooooh, that sounds lofty, how do you do that ?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

program , which saw us developing a course prototype delivered in the form of a website , a Learn page, and a final presentation. Delivering: Designing a website, Learn page and final presentation to communicate findings from the consultations, brainstorming sessions and prototypes for the course.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

AUGUST 31, 2023

Because a career may often be thought of as something one merely does in the world, we see it as important to help students understand how careers can also shape and be shaped by the world. Another activity invited students to research corporate sustainability practices.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

The Edinburgh Medical School uses Student Selected Components ( SSCs ) as part of the medicine timetable to deliver a range of learning outcomes which mainly relate to developing research skills, and professional development including teamwork and teaching skills. Apr 4, 2016

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

As each student progresses through the role of Design Agency intern, junior, senior, and director, their level of responsibility and workload increases. Each encounter of this spiral curriculum is assessed through reflective documentation often using diaries, blogs, films and pecha-kucha style presentations.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

What was it about the teaching activities or the way the content was presented that engaged the learners? Maybe, in response to these questions, you thought back to a course that asked challenging questions and encouraged learners to research and find the answers independently. Why was that? Why did this work better than alternatives?

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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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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 2, 2017

For instance, my group had to rebrand Tesco and present our media strategy in front of everyone. Vitae: Realising the potential of researchers. When she does not research consequences of religious diversity, she tutors in Religious Studies at the School of Divinity. It is an experience too unique to be captured by words.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

We were continuously put into teams and made to present in different styles on various topics ranging from climate change impact assessment to the proposal of new sustainable business solutions. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the course’s learning approaches are far from traditional, containing many vocational and practical elements.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Next year, Teaching Matters colleagues will be undertaking a research project investigating how a multi-authored blog (Teaching Matters!) Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance? creates different spaces for conversations around teaching and learning.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

APRIL 11, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, dtavres, CC0 In this post, PhD student, Liv Coombes, presents a podcast initiative, which she developed with fellow student, Elliott Gruzin, to build an online community of listeners for anyone interested in philosophy and pop culture… My PhD research involves the philosophy of time travel, looking at how traditional theories (..)

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