See You Again Next Week
Suggests that student tutoring may provide a partial solution to the high attrition rate in education plus training for 16‐18‐year‐olds in Britain. Focuses on the Pimlico Connection – a student tutoring scheme initiated by Imperial College, London in 1975 – in which students act as volunteer tutors in local primary and secondary schools. Evaluates the scheme, in which 1,300 volunteer students assisted nearly 15,000 school pupils, and concludes that, with appropriate commercial backing, effective management and willing participants, student tutoring has great potential for raising schoolchildren′s aspirations.
E-mentoring: A Content Analysis Design
Through a project ERASMUS+, named CommonS, has been implemented a platform were it will be possible to create communities of practice and e-mentoring to help on the development of soft skills. This tool could help higher education institutions to respond to the need of recruiters and companies on these skills development and prepare students to be working ready graduates. In this paper it is operationalized a data analysis type, specifically a design of content analysis, to implement with the data that will be collected inside each e-mentoring project. Being e-mentoring a new phenomenon to the people involved, our aim is to understand how it works and identify the best practices.
Putting science into context
Summary In a scheme based on the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University, undergraduates help teach science, mathematics and engineering in local schools. Over the last four years, replies to questionnaires from 2919 pupils and 272 student tutors, and 128 teacher‐responses, suggest that the principal benefits of the tutoring scheme are: pupils: 64 per cent find lessons easier to follow; tutors: 95 per cent get useful practice in communicating scientific ideas; teachers: 66 per cent find lessons more enjoyable with tutors present. The paper gives a qualitative description of the reaction of participants to the scheme.