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.
Challenges Facing Health Professional Education in the Changing Context of University Education
Many challenges face educators in health professional programmes, for instance, consumer expectations, the quality movement, globalisation and using flexible delivery. This paper considers these challenges arising from the changing context of university education and presents strategies that address them. The strategies include setting appropriate curriculum goals, cooperation in educational programmes and making relevant choices.