The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I know many people in professional services jobs at the university who have been off sick with stress. I have co-workers who are so snowed under with their workload that they’re afraid to strike lest they come back to an even larger mountain of work. Continue reading.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Hanover suggests culturally relevant services be offered that help affirm student individuality. For at-risk students skeptical about professional services for mental health needs, nontraditional resources such as peer-supported mental health programs can do the trick.

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Fundraising Professional Services Media Research 105

Symplicity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The UK is facing a growing skills crisis that threatens economic growth, particularly as the country grapples with a shortage of skilled workers in critical sectors such as life sciences, engineering, and professional services.

Career Services 52

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. To that end, our series of internal conversations will shortly be expanded to include our partner Schools. Oct 1, 2018

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AIFS Abroad

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Economic opportunities in Sydney intersect with (but arent limited to) banking, finance, telecommunications, professional services, mining, and manufacturing. Sydney Sydney is the business and finance capital of Australia and a major player in regional and global economics.

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EAB

APRIL 24, 2023

The Results With ongoing support from EAB’s professional services team, they saved hundreds of hours and expect to save even more in future cycles. Northampton’s IE staff were then able to easily run their reports, check for errors, and submit them on time. It’s a whole team.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 9, 2019

One solution is Go Abroad Staff , which provides Erasmus+ funding for academic and professional services staff to teach or train in Europe and beyond. Her interests include student engagement, professional learning and sociomaterial methodologies. Yet finding the time, and money, to make these connections, can be challenging.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Collaborative Living Lab projects can provide answers and guidance for operations and professional services staff, experiential learning opportunities for students, and gateways for research impact for academics. What makes a Living Lab project? A Living Lab project should aim to: Solve a real life problem.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Tackling these organisational issues means looking closely at our academic and professional services structures, and challenging some of the accepted wisdom on how we provide support to students. To that end, our series of internal conversations will shortly be expanded to include our partner Schools. Oct 1, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Similarly, we would like to thank all staff involved (academic, professional services, sessional), the residential site and staff, George Gaff, who similarly ensured a COVID safe space.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

The incentive to review book manuscripts is near nonexistent, and not just because the payment university presses are able to provide for this service, in the form of cash or books, is inevitably quite small compared to the time and thought required to give detailed, in-depth feedback.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Although we have some academics serving as coaches, most are professional services staff, covering a wide range of roles and seniorities. The professional services emphasis helps: the coaching relationship is not an academic one. The coaches then meet with their students once a month during their first year in Edinburgh.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 7, 2019

This months’ Widening Participation strategy-themed Teaching Matters’ posts will showcase the already rich variety of outreach and support strategies that academic and professional services staff in the University are undertaking. On 29 May, there will be an open Senate session where you can hear and discuss more on this topic.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Developing such guidance and training has been a chief focus of the Digital Safety and Citizenship initiative in the Digital Skills team over the past two years, but it is clear that we need the help of both our academic and professional services colleagues to spread the word.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Here are my takeaways: Faculty diversity matters, not simply as a matter of justice or equity but as a way to enhance the three responsibilities universities value most: teaching, research, and community and professional service. Nor is something approaching faculty diversity unachievable within our lifetimes.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

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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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 13, 2021

Staff play a pivotal role in the student experience at the University of Edinburgh, from Lecturers and Tutors to Supervisors, Personal Tutors and Professional Services staff. Our Awards are now back for their 12 th year.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 6, 2023

The Panel was asked to feed into the development of a Digital Strategy together with members from administrative teams and professional services across the University.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Next, Northampton’s IR and IE staff partnered with Edify’s professional services team to build exports in Edify that matched every form field and reporting requirement for both IPEDS and the Pennsylvania state reporting agency, PIMS.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Such capabilities include both general and subject-specific experience in data and project management, communication, team facilitation, and event coordination, liaising with internal and external stakeholders, guiding conversations and speaking publicly, supporting or delivering professional services, and building digital resources.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

APRIL 27, 2023

They have also interviewed staff members – both academic and professional services – who are actively engaged in innovating student feedback mechanisms. In focus groups, our student interns have led discussion with peers about their personal experiences in giving feedback to the University.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 3, 2022

Staff play a pivotal role in the student experience at The University of Edinburgh, from Lecturers and Tutors to Supervisors, Personal Tutors and Professional Services staff. Edinburgh University Students’ Association was the first in the UK to offer student-led Teaching Awards, and our Awards are now in their 13th year.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

MARCH 27, 2020

The contributors were a mixed bag of clinicians, academics and professional services staff but all were starting to find their feet with teaching online. I wanted to know if others felt the same so, in 2012/13, I interviewed everyone teaching on the Clinical Education Masters at that time.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 14, 2019

The way students are signed up to courses in EUCLID impacts feelings of agency, worth, and value for students, professional service staff, and academics alike. The way a Board of Studies New Course form is structured, for example, shapes perceptions of what is valued by our institution in terms of teaching.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 31, 2020

This duty involves both legal and moral obligations to internal (students, academic and professional services staff) and external (the general public) audiences through a variety of published material, including but not limited to physical and digital documents.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JULY 4, 2023

This triple whammy of innovation has placed considerable demands on academic staff, students, and professional service colleagues as we try to bridge gaps and make connections between various fields of study in a complex web of university structures and processes.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

AUGUST 1, 2018

With Spotlight on Joint Degrees , a monthly blog post will bring you notes from the field, which we hope will encourage discussion across the university about what joint degrees should look like, and facilitate productive dialogue between students, professional services staff and academics.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Helen Stringer Helen Stringer is Assistant Director of the Careers Service, with a remit for developing and strengthening academic partnerships.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 8, 2019

The membership of the group spanned all three colleges, academics and professional services, and created a space for holistic discussions about this to occur. In 2018, the Senate Learning and Teaching Committee task group, “ Promoting inclusion, equality and diversity in the curriculum ”, was created to address these concerns.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MARCH 10, 2020

Key staff, both Professional Services and academic, also attend, including the Head of School and Heads of Subject Area, the Senior Tutor, the QA Director and the (Deputy) Undergraduate Directors, the Teaching Directors for each Subject Area, plus the Student Support Manager and the Careers Consultant.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As part of its remit, it provides ELDeR (Edinburgh Learning Design Roadmap) workshops for academic teams to (re)design courses and programmes, including facilitation from the IAD and representation from School-level Learning Technologists, Professional Services, and Librarians, along with students and/or alumni.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 27, 2023

For students, they have personal and professional development opportunities to enhance their CVs, beyond the society involvement alone. For example, they can evidence working closely alongside academic and professional services staff.

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SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

Therefore, I argue that whole university mental health, with academic and professional services included, should be to the fore in university policies and higher management discussions. Academic staff who are well and focused will offer the best support, guidance and teaching to your students.

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Hanover Research

MARCH 31, 2023

When this happens, everyone — most of all, students — reap considerable benefits. —Marriam Ewaida , PhD, Managing Director, K–12 Professional Services , Hanover Research Build your district and school employees’ data literacy skills with our Data Literacy Checklist.

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JULY 30, 2024

Recognising that students should have an active role in embedding climate and sustainability within the Curriculum Transformation Project, and their own curriculum.   Students have worked with academic and professional services colleagues to map curriculum against the Sustainable Development Goals in academic schools; identified and created case (..)

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

I talked to 13 staff participants across different schools and roles, including professional services and guest lecturers, to find out what value they saw in lecture recording. Unstructured interviews are essentially conversations with a purpose.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 4, 2020

They had specifically organised a session for all new staff, professional services staff and academics together. My feelings of gratitude for the work experience quickly turned to bad feelings about the overall company, their values and the people in it. Then I think of my first day as ‘Events Administrator’ in the Law School in 2014.

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