Personal Tutoring Clause Samples

Personal Tutoring. The University’s Personal Tutoring scheme is designed to support students to fully engage with their University experience and to offer them additional support during their studies. The scheme ensures the provision of academic and pastoral support for all students and allows us to monitor progression and attendance. Students have the opportunity to reflect on their learning and academic progress with their Personal Tutors and to discuss and formulate appropriate strategies to fulfil their potential. The scheme is being phased in over three years from September 2016. It is built around a set of minimum expectations in relation to what all undergraduate students can expect in terms of support from Personal Tutoring. Through it, students have the opportunity to access professional and career development and receive guidance on the planning and recording of skills development throughout the year. Our Learning Adviser Service has become our Learning Development Team and has significantly expanded in staffing, scope and sphere of responsibility extended. Whilst continuing to provide a response to students’ individual needs, through one to one and group appointments, workshops, study guides, online materials, telephone and email services, the service now focuses increasingly on designing models of skills development which are more embedded within curriculum programmes. By providing activities which are developed and delivered collaboratively with subject staff, they are better able to offer focussed, timely and relevant services and resources which are accessible to greater number of students. These address the needs of a diverse student population and facilitate independent learning, but do not rely on students self-selecting or presenting themselves for additional input, as research suggests this has limited success. Programme review boards, student surveys and external examiner reports all continue to highlight academic skills development work embedded within curriculum delivery as being particularly beneficial in meeting the specific needs of part-time and/or mature students who have limited time on campus (e.g. part-time Education programmes). All these developments, ‘Get Set for Success’, the Personal Tutoring system, and the focus of the Learning and Development Team are subject to review, and the evaluations will feed into further refinement and focussing of our activities in these areas in order to ensure the ongoing development of our students’ potentia...