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"Mentoring means to support and encourage people to manage their own learning in order that they may maximise their potential, develop their skills, improve their performance and become the person they want to be."

Eric Parsloe, The Oxford School of Coaching & Mentoring

Mentoring is a powerful personal development tool and offers extensive benefits to all those involved, the mentor, mentee and the organisation, and is now often being used in universities. Examples of mentoring In higher education might include:

• advanced students working with first year students (for induction or subject advice purposes)
• existing staff working with new staff
• industry professionals working with university students
• university students advising schoolchildren thinking of going to university

Resources

A Comprehensive Guide on Mentoring is available in the Learning and Teaching Guides section of the HLST website’ Developing skills in critical reflection through mentoring stories’

MentorSET is a mentoring scheme established to help women working in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Their website contains a useful set of resources.

A number of universities run institutional mentoring schemes; see for example:

• University of Salford
• Birmingham City University
• Napier University
• University of York

There is a report on the use of student peer mentoring at the University of Northumbria.

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