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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As Scotland marks 20 years of its enhancement-led approach to quality in the higher education sector, I reflect on my involvement, particularly around work supporting student development, employability, and personal and professional success.

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Adaptive Comparative Judgment and the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Online Learning

ACJ demonstrates much greater reliability in large-volume assessment when using a distributed team of assessors and also enables high numbers of students to efficiently receive valuable feedback from several assessors, whether used for staff assessing students or student peer assessment.

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Learning from each other: Adventures in student engagement with learning and teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

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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How can our Graduate Attributes inform programme and course development? Challenges and opportunities

Teaching Matters Student Employment

However, what do they do when they look to develop students’ ‘mindsets’? What evidence do we have to show our students develop these graduate attributes? Perhaps the best is that our graduates are highly regarded and sought after by employers, and the continued successes of our alumni. communication, teamworking).

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Bridging the seminar room and the world of public policy: Six practical tips for organising work placements

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Manage relationships during the placement A typical placement might involve four people: the student, an academic supervisor at the University, a supervisor at the host organisation, and somebody at the University who handles any non-academic issues that arise on the placement.

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Collegiate commentary: Five take-aways from 'Embedding Enterprise in the Curriculum' series

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Helping students develop these capacities and skills whilst at university will certainly give them a head start in their career. Enterprise development is not a spectator sport. Hands on work and achieving results is one of the tenets of an entrepreneur (Bill Aulet, MIT).

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Supporting Student Success in Higher Education: A Comprehensive Guide

Creatrix Campus

The findings are graphically presented in the graph below. Why is Student Success important for higher education? Lack of student success can have several implications and consequences. Additionally, successful students contribute to a vibrant and intellectually stimulating academic community.