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Mirror image: Reflection coaching for African students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The coaches then meet with their students once a month during their first year in Edinburgh. Scholar students. Although we have some academics serving as coaches, most are professional services staff, covering a wide range of roles and seniorities. MasterCard Foundation Scholars. Photo credit: Muturi Njeri.

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Spotlight on the 2024 Teaching Award winners: Staff offering exceptional levels of support to students

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Each year, we have several categories celebrating these staff – from supervisors and cohort leads to the many professional services staff who keep things ticking along smoothly. I think this is a clear indicator of just how much they appreciate this part of their relationship with staff.

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Are we assuming all students will cheat?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In this post, Dr Donna Murray guides the academic community to think about moving our ongoing conversations from AI-assisted plagiarism detectors and the lack of trust in students to exploring what it means to equip students to belong to an academic culture. Mar 14, 2023