Highlighting the value of your mentoring schemes is difficult according to our report on mentoring schemes and their management and those we spoke to. Funders often want to see metrics for mentoring schemes, but this isn’t always the full picture, nor the only way to…
Brunel University London provides a series of high-quality programmes and activities that enhance the opportunities of students as part of their widening access scheme – focused on those groups that are under-represented in higher education. Amongst those activities is the Brunel Professional Mentoring Programme, which…
Kingston University’s Student Enrichment team runs various programmes and mentoring schemes to help enhance the experience and knowledge gained by students at Kingston University. Julia Millette manages the team that runs 2 mentoring schemes – firstly, a peer-to-peer mentoring scheme where 2nd year students mentor…
We are delighted to announce that we have a new mobile messaging app for our sfG MentorNet customers! Many people are used to messaging on their phone these days, so we were keen to develop an app to help them do so as part of…
While there is extensive evidence of the benefits of mentoring relationships for mentees and mentors, there is less research evidence on what it means to design and manage a successful mentoring scheme. This is despite widespread recognition that there are an increasing number of mentoring schemes being developed in diverse sectors, from the arts to youth services, professional associations to social justice and across all education levels.
A new release of sfG MentorNet was made available in November 2019. The main focus of the release was making matching administration easier and making it easy to encourage mentors and mentees to complete evaluation questionnaires. Already the improvements to the matching administration have produced tangible results – Anna Klenert from Oxford Brookes University said of the new release: “The new features helped tremendously. The matching time has reduced from approximately 4 days to 2 days.”
You may have already put together a mentoring programme and want to improve on it, or you may be considering your first scheme altogether. Either way, drawing on experience from ‘people who have done it before’ can give you the best chances of a well-designed…
The University of Oxford has been running mentoring schemes for a while now, but recently has decided to select sfG MentorNet as the mentoring platform for some of its mentoring programmes. We are very pleased to be working with the University, to enhance their mentoring…
I read a recent article in the Drum, about a business leader’s enthusiasm for mentoring as a general practice throughout the working life – and even personal life. Many of us don’t always appreciate the value of personal development – in the real sense of…
When writing another blog, I had a general conversation with Jo Haddrick from Napier University about the role of mentoring in preparing students for the business world. We discussed the challenges faced by students in learning how to operate in a corporate environment and having…