UCISA Conference Day One (March 11) - Bucks New University

THis session was all about mentors, but actually asked some questions we'd heard earlier in the day (Sense a pattern here?). We know our students - don't we? We know our academic staff - don't we? Does it really matter that they all come with so many different and personalised requirements and support needs? There are over 600 mentors and growing at this University and managing these "non -paid" staff to provide them with the support they need for individual students in the work place and off-site is a real challenge. We probably have mentors but it's not an issue that I'm aware of - perhaps it occurs in the School of Health (it was specifically mentioned as one environment with diverse mentoring needs. Another place felt this was a really important issue for IT and for providing the support for Learning and Teaching but it just wasn't on many people's radars (yet?)