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…
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.
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…
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…
Jo Haddrick is Mentoring Coordinator within the Employer Opportunities Team at Edinburgh Napier University. The department has been running a mentoring programme for 9 years and they are currently in the process of moving to an online mentoring platform, sfG MentorNet. Following a conversation with…
Cambridge University Students’ Union (CUSU) is the representative body of all 20,000 students within the University of Cambridge and is a registered charity. It aims to support and advance the opportunities of its members, from all walks of life. A key goal is to widen…
In our last blog, we mentioned Generation Y, the younger generation of today – and its preference for interactions, social media and a life that has grown up with the internet and all things digital. For those people in the slightly older generation – say…
Mentoring is an important concept for Oxford Brookes University. The Accounting, Finance and Economics Department is one of the departments in the university that uses MentorNet for their mentoring scheme. A larger scheme is run by the Oxford School of Hospitality Management, that also uses…
An interesting article that I saw today talks about the younger generation of 16-25 year olds, referred to as Generation Y – and their experiences and expectations going into the future world of work. Many of the mentoring programmes our customers run are in some…