Addressing professional competency barriers that restrict bilateral international mobility of undergraduate veterinary nursing students.
Conference Proceeding
Smith, D., & Webster, B. Addressing professional competency barriers that restrict bilateral international mobility of undergraduate veterinary nursing students. Manuscript submitted for publication)
Smith, D., & Webster, B. Addressing professional competency barriers that restrict bilateral international mobility of undergraduate veterinary nursing students. Manuscript submitted for publication
This paper is primarily aimed at addressing some of the issues that relate to student mobility in the area of veterinary nurse education across the world. Mobility of veterin...
Academic Diary Or Why Higher Education Still Matters
Journal Article
Hanna, B. (2016)
Academic Diary Or Why Higher Education Still Matters. Teaching fellows journal, Autumn 2016, 23
On the outside of this book the spine is now broken. The plastic red covering is beginning to curl away slightly from the edges of cover. This is a book which I have carried w...
Can we enable students to reach their potential through engaging with feedback – a feedback pathway?
Presentation / Conference
Malone, E., & MacNab, A. (2015, January)
Can we enable students to reach their potential through engaging with feedback – a feedback pathway?. Presented at The Teaching Fellows Conference, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh
In response to our experience and supporting evidence [1] that students may not engage with, understand or use their feedback, we have created and introduced a ’feedback pathw...
The relationship between stress and retention within science undergraduates, their use of support and the potential remedial effect of stress education.
Thesis
Harris, P. J. (2016)
The relationship between stress and retention within science undergraduates, their use of support and the potential remedial effect of stress education. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/453554
Students experience stress due to many factors including educational unpreparedness, financial strain and the inability to integrate socially. This mixed methods study aimed t...
Putting employer engagement at the heart of Higher Education degree programmes. Sharing Edinburgh Napier University’s experiences.
Conference Proceeding
Smith, D., & Hussian, M. (2015)
Putting employer engagement at the heart of Higher Education degree programmes. Sharing Edinburgh Napier University’s experiences.
Edinburgh Napier University has 50 year history of working with regional employers to develop programmes of study which produce appropriately skilled and qualified graduates. ...
Closing the Gap: an exploration of first-year students’ expectations and experiences of learning
Journal Article
WILLIAMSON, M., LAYBOURN, P., DEANE, J., & TAIT, H. (2011)
Closing the Gap: an exploration of first-year students’ expectations and experiences of learning. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 10(2), 146-157. https://doi.org/10.2304/plat.2011.10.2.146
In line with Edinburgh Napier University's commitment to enhancing undergraduates' first-year experience (FYE), the aim of this qualitative research project was to examine the...
Veterinary Nurse training in the UK
Conference Proceeding
Cooper, B., & Smith, D. (2015)
Veterinary Nurse training in the UK
Veterinary Nursing in the UK is still a relatively young profession. Whilst it is known that there were animal nurses in existence in the late 1800’s the role and title ‘Veter...
Group guidance – is it time to flock together?
Journal Article
Meldrum, S. (2017)
Group guidance – is it time to flock together?. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 38(1), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.3806
This article calls for delivery models which encourage the collective career learning of groups to be brought to the centre stage of career guidance practice. It challenges th...
Regulations relating to Registered Veterinary Nurses in the United Kingdom.
Conference Proceeding
Smith, D., & Copper, B. (2015)
Regulations relating to Registered Veterinary Nurses in the United Kingdom
Veterinary nursing is now a well recognise professional route in the UK. There is considerable capacity within the industry to increase the number of veterinary nurses employ...
No longer exempt from good practice: using exemplars to close the feedback gap for exams
Journal Article
Scoles, J., Huxham, M., & McArthur, J. (2013)
No longer exempt from good practice: using exemplars to close the feedback gap for exams. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 38(6), 631-645. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2012.674485
In this paper, we discuss the anomaly between the increasing interest in feedback in current education research, the continued role of time-limited, unseen examinations as a f...