Do undergraduates feel that their university is preparing them for work? How confident are they about their career prospects? What skills do they believe employers most value? And importantly, does all this match up with what universities are prioritising?
Do we know what good assessment and feedback practice looks like in our digital age? Lisa Gray, PebblePad's Senior Consultant (Learning, Teaching and Assessment) considers how we can truly use digital approaches to ensure we are assessing the right things, in the right ways.
PebblePad helps universities support the learning journey for students – on and off campus, in any context, at any scale, from application to graduation.
Almost half of graduate and student employers are planning to increase the number of hires they make in the year ahead.
Turning a corner after a challenging few years for university-leavers, new research from Handshake and the Institute of Student Employers (ISE) reveals that 47% of companies that employ students and graduates will be looking to make more hires in the next year, while an additional 50% will maintain their current level.
Researchers at Alfaisal University are exploring how nanotechnology and nanomaterials offer novel solutions to biomedical and energy concerns
Thousands of international students from almost 100 countries around the world have chosen Semmelweis University in Budapest as the location of their studies, to become doctors, pharmacists or dentists. In 2022, the Hungarian university celebrates the 40th anniversary of teaching international students, who make up over one-third of the total students’ community at the institute.
Increasing the number of international PhD students is an important part of Semmelweis University’s strategy. The Doctoral Program covers the whole spectrum of medicine and health sciences, aiming to make degree opportunities more and more varied and flexible – adapting them to the different life situations of the students.
Semmelweis University provides health care in Budapest for refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. In case Ukrainian patients have language difficulties at a clinic, the university’s Department of Languages for Specific Purposes offers 24-hour on-call interpretation in Ukrainian and Russian. The university also gives students, researchers, lecturers the opportunity to continue their work and studies in Hungarian, English or German. The university has collected donations and sent medicines to a Ukrainian hospital.