Failure as a career development tool
How to encourage students to actively examine their ‘failures’ as a useful learning tool when considering their future career options
April 24, 2023
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Field journals: a deceptively simple solution for improving engagement
Sending students into the field armed with journals (and latterly iPads) has provided pedagogical lessons that can be applied far beyond my field of natural history, says Michael Brunson
April 24, 2023 -
How to support students considering self-employment
Not all students want – nor can they find in a challenging employment market – graduate jobs after university. Victoria Prince looks at what more faculties can do to support students in creating their own business opportunities
April 21, 2023 -
Careers services: how to prepare graduates for workplace abuse
University career services must do a better job of helping students identify and manage psychological abuse following entry into the labour market
April 21, 2023 -
Understanding compassion fatigue and how to prevent it
Tips and strategies for reducing compassion fatigue among university faculty and staff
April 21, 2023 -
Look after the intangibles and the metrics will look after themselves
Unmeasurable elements such as enthusiasm, belonging and motivation are valuable parts of the university experience. Sue Lee looks at ways to embrace these intangible assets
April 20, 2023 -
Silence is golden when you ‘shut up and write’ together
How to build a supportive community of practice and peer learning through the simple practice of meeting online to ‘shut up and write’
April 20, 2023 -
A methodology to trigger social entrepreneurship ideas in your class
José Carlos Vázquez Parra shares five steps for triggering social entrepreneurship and thus encouraging students to become agents of change, whatever their discipline
April 20, 2023 -
How ChatGPT can help disrupt assessment overload
Advances in AI are not necessarily the enemy – in fact, they should prompt long overdue consideration of assessment types and frequency, says David Carless
April 19, 2023 -
Why we start undergraduate transdisciplinary research from day one
Hands-on knowledge discovery can give students the chance to put learning into action from the beginning of their studies, write Gray Kochhar-Lindgren and Julian Tanner
April 19, 2023 -
Why it is time to start co-creating professional development with employees
Steps to working with employees to shape and improve professional development programmes
April 19, 2023 -
Failing your way to academic success
Failure offers students and educators a chance to explore their shortcomings and come to greater self-awareness. In fact, it can be seen as growth in disguise, write Kelvin Yihang Zhang and Kim Yong Joong
April 18, 2023 -
Spruce up lectures to capture the interest of all students
A guide to making lectures more interactive learning experiences that keep students interested
April 18, 2023 -
Develop the skills of the future through challenge-based learning
Modern employers require a broad suite of skills from graduates; Jorge Membrillo-Hernández outlines how challenge-based learning can help, and how to get started
April 18, 2023 -
Building equitable and accessible digital assessment to maximise employability
Offering a fully integrated, end-to-end digital assessment platform, Inspera presents universities with a diverse range of options for creating more accessible and authentic modes of assessing students
April 17, 2023