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 Student Employment

MAY 18, 2017

The 3MT provides a unique opportunity for PhD students to showcase their research through a short, captivating pitch for a lay audience. In the competition, you’re given a maximum of 3 minutes and 1 slide to summarize years of specialized work into a compelling presentation for a diverse public of all ages and backgrounds.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2018

An obvious way to bridge the gap in the natural or social sciences is to get students involved in tasks such as experiments, interviews or data processing. Political theorists work by formulating arguments, presenting them for debate, receiving feedback and then redrafting. But political theory is not a science.

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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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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. Figure 1: Hierarchy of the use of Live Briefs in University Teaching.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The top through groups after their successful presentations with industry partner, Sopria Steri. This proved to be a very fun challenge for the students! Image credit: Kit Daniel Searle. This is a theme which I embed in my course.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 10, 2018

We all recognise more familiar assessment paradigms of exams, essays, presentations and project write-ups that require the submission to be ‘correct’. Once they got started, the students have ripped our hands off in taking this opportunity, being highly imaginative and creative – way beyond our expectations. Please take a look.

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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 This summer I have had the pleasure and the privilege of taking part in the University’s Employ.ed

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JUNE 20, 2016

Students’ submissions are uploaded to an online system used for the peer assessment. Reviewers, in this case students themselves, are then presented with two submissions on which to make a comparative judgement – essentially deciding which submission better fulfils the set criteria.

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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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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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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

and includes a video of their presentation at McEwan Hall. This post summarises Ellen MacRae and Tara Gold’s keynote talk: What even is a University anyway?, Ellen was EUSA President 20/22, and Tara was EUSA Vice President Education 21/22. This post is part of the Hot Topic: Learning & Teaching Conference 2022.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

The students work on real research questions, using current state-of-the-art models and real data, to solve specific applied problems and feed into wider publishable research project. Our joint conference paper was subsequently also published in the Journal of British Interplanetary Society (JBIS). References Barrie, S.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

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 Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

All students taking the course complete a short, persuasive briefing paper, which is shared with the department and with relevant operations colleagues. In the final week of the course, a half-day workshop is arranged where student groups present their research and recommendations.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

However, is there a challenge presented by the modular structure of programmes? Seconded to the Institute for Academic Development he is developing his interests in reflection, experiential learning, and student agency, to develop SLICCs institution-wide. Developing graduate attributes should be stated in programmes’ learning outcomes.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The sector-wide Enhancement Themes have often been such waves – they have presented opportunities to harness and build momentum in directions we already wanted to travel as a university. In contrast to some other frameworks, the University’s Graduate Attributes were designed to be contextualised.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 9, 2017

We wanted to engage pro-actively with the HEAR and use it to benefit student learning from co- and extra-curricular activity. The Award was piloted in 2011-12 and the beginning of our work on the Edinburgh Award was prompted in part by the development of Higher Education Achievement Reports (HEARs).

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The opportunity presented by the review is ambitious and exciting, with the potential to become world leading. Generating genuine benefit will require sensible and sensitive implementation that recognises the complexity, diversity, and autonomy of the University context, and collaboration within universities to respond to local circumstances.

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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

Enterprise in the curriculum could also help resolve the challenge of student engagement The Covid 19 Pandemic had a significant impact on the student body and is the subject of several papers, each presenting their resulting recommendations (eg QAA Student Engagement Guidelines – May 2023 ).

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

When given the freedom to design their own learning, these students certainly didn’t take the easy option. Instead, they pushed the boundaries of how far their learning could take them and gained as much from the mistakes along the way as the presentation of the final product. Students leading their learning is nothing new.

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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.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Of course, this seems obvious in retrospect, but student (and faculty) feedback often bring significantly increased clarity to a situation that did not previously appear to need it.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 30, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Elizabeth Jamieson, CC0 In this post, Dr Daniel Kenealy, a Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Social and Political Science, presents his six top tips for organising student work placements One of my most challenging but rewarding tasks has been the development of around eighty ‘Capstone’ placements for postgraduate (..)

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 13, 2017

By Gavin McCabe, University’s Employability Consultancy Omolabake Fakunle Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle is a MSc Educational Research graduate and current PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Labake’s PhD research is exploring internationalisation of higher education and employability.

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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. This we refer to as developing an ecological mode of career thinking.

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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 Experiential Learning

JULY 4, 2019

They work on a hot topic, they get additional presentation training, and their work culminates with a presentation at the organisations’ offices. Those who end up working on the projects usually enjoy it; we regularly hear it’s the best experience they have in their four university years.

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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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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

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

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This approach brings a number of other educational benefits and challenges, for example: Students are motivated by having to engage with the ‘real world’ and present their ideas to outside stakeholders. Students have more direct access to the messiness of the problem though the external stakeholders.

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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? Why was that? Why did this work better than alternatives?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The LTW Monthly Showcase in November will feature presentations from lecture recording PTAS projects as well as a presentation on the University-wide evaluation on the value of lecture recording at Edinburgh.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

a PhD student may have the thought “I’m not smart enough”, and not put themselves forward to teach, write for publication, or present at conferences). We also invited Dr Karen Goodall (Lecturer in Clinical Psychology) to provide a workshop around self-regulation in PhD students.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It is organised as a 20 credit elective course in year two, that spans both semesters to enable participating students to undertake a meaningful placement in a school, to initiate development of their own teaching skills in working with school pupils, and to develop and deliver a cultural learning experience in their school class placement.

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